Here the humour is directed at the activity, the fashions of the time and the client. As with The Village Barber (no. 3), the drawing is by Bunbury with, this time, Charles Bretherton Jun. as the engraver and his father James Bretherton the publisher. The wigs described in The Village Barber can be seen here and on the wall is contemporary ephemera: the print Death & the Lady, the Stationer’s Almanack for 1772 and a list of the Lent preachers.