A sufferer for decency, Thomas Rowlandson
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The interior of a barber's shop, conducted on popular principles, as the notice on the lantern has it : 'Shave with ease and expedition for one penny! It will be noticed that the lathering is accomplished on a wholesale scale ; a boy is waiting on the customers with a small pail of soap, and is officiating with a lathering-brush of the size of a decent hearth-broom ; the barber is waiting, with his razor poised in the air, ready to let it descend with a swoop on the face of the sufferer.
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Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors, a popular artist in the Regency period in England.
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