Traveling Barbers, Brazil,1816-1831

Caption, Les Barbiers Ambulants, shows two barbers cutting hair and shaving customers in a port town. The engravings in this book were taken from drawings made by Debret during his residence in Brazil from 1816 to 1831. For watercolors by Debret of scenes in Brazil, some of which were incorporated into his Voyage Pittoresque, see Jean Baptiste Debret, Viagem Pitoresca e Historica ao Brasil (Editora Itatiaia Limitada, Editora da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1989; a reprint of the 1954 Paris edition, edited by R. De Castro Maya).

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Image Title

Traveling Barbers, Brazil,1816-1831

RegID

SI-OB-253

Date

1816-1831

Title

Traveling Barbers, Brazil,1816-1831

Source

Jean Baptiste Debret, Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Bresil (Paris,1834-39), vol. 2, plate 11, p. 49. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)

Language

French

Item sets

Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities

Spatial Coverage

South America--Brazil

Reproduced In

Jean Baptiste Debret, Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Bresil (Paris,1834-39), vol. 2, plate 11, p. 49.

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Identifier

NW0145