{"id":1898,"date":"2021-03-09T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/1898"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:18:21","slug":"a-barbers-shop-at-richmond-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-barbers-shop-at-richmond-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Barber&#8217;s Shop at Richmond, Virginia\u2014an Engraving from a painting by Eyre Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">March 9, 1861, <em>The Illustrated London News<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-100359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Barbers-Shop-at-Richmond-Virginia-By-Eyre-Crowe-in-the-Exhibition-of-the-British-Institution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Barbers-Shop-at-Richmond-Virginia-By-Eyre-Crowe-in-the-Exhibition-of-the-British-Institution.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Barbers-Shop-at-Richmond-Virginia-By-Eyre-Crowe-in-the-Exhibition-of-the-British-Institution-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Californian FB; font-size: small;\">&#8216;A Barber&#8217;s Shop at Richmond, Virginia&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An Engraving from a painting by Eyre Crowe, in the Exhibition of the British Institution<\/p>\n<p><em>London Illustrated News<\/em>, March 9, 1861<\/p>\n<p>Painting 1853<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This engraving, based on an oil painting by the English artist Eyre Crowe, is titled A Barber&#8217;s Shop at Richmond, Virginia. This image of an African American barber in the American South was published on the cover of the March 9, 1861, edition of the Illustrated London News. By that date, seven Southern states had seceded from the Union, and in the following month the Civil War would commence.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediavirginia.org\/media_player?mets_filename=evr7765mets.xml\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\"> Encyclopedia Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-100358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Barbers-Shop-at-Richmond-Virginia-By-Eyre-Crowe-in-the-Exhibition-of-the-British-Institution-hand-colored-off-print.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Barbers-Shop-at-Richmond-Virginia-By-Eyre-Crowe-in-the-Exhibition-of-the-British-Institution-hand-colored-off-print.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Barbers-Shop-at-Richmond-Virginia-By-Eyre-Crowe-in-the-Exhibition-of-the-British-Institution-hand-colored-off-print-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Californian FB; font-size: small;\">&#8216;A Barber&#8217;s Shop at Richmond, Virginia,&#8217; By Eyre Crowe, in the Exhibition of the British Institution (hand-colored off-print)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"editable meta-field photo-desc\">While online researching the black and which engraving from London Illustrated News, this hand-colored off-print was discovered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granger.com\/results.asp?image=0034006\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">Granger Historical Picture Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9, 1861, The Illustrated London News &#8216;A Barber&#8217;s Shop at Richmond, Virginia&#8217; An Engraving from a painting by Eyre Crowe, in the Exhibition of the British Institution London Illustrated News, March 9, 1861 Painting 1853 &#8220;This engraving, based on an oil painting by the English artist Eyre Crowe, is titled A Barber&#8217;s Shop at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}