Hand Colored Engraving by T. Allom: An Itinerant Barber At Work, Framed

Today a street corner stall draws a huddle of customers, and one gentleman tries to leave

This hand colored engraving is from London, England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1843. It is ink on paper. The Finden brothers engraved biblical scenes after J.M.W. Turner for the 1836 book Landscape Illustrations of the Bible, and Turner relied on sketches by artists who had visited the Holy Lands. Scaled down, a hand-colored street scene with figures clustered around a low table at a shopfront, one in a broad hat. The tones are warm gray and tan. It floats in a wide cream mat and a dark, scrolling burnished frame. It is 22.25 inches wide and 20.75 high.

A busy little corner, mat and all.