An episode in the play "The dancing barber" by Charles Selby: Narcissus Fitzfrizzle attending to the hair of Alfred Fitzfrolic in the rooms of the latter. Etching by R. Cruikshank.

"The dancing barber", the subject of the present print, was a one-act farce by Charles Selby performed at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1838-1839 (The torch, 13 January 1838, p. 168). Fitzfrolic, amused by the barber Fitzfrizzle who is an amateur dancer, invites him to gatecrash a ball that he is going to. At the ball, the barber is mistaken for Fitzfrolic, owing to their similar surnames

The room is decorated with paintings in elaborate gilt frames

1830-1839

1 print : etching ; image 14.7 x 9 cm

Dancing barber.

Wellcome Collection 29521i