Shoeblack, Caius College, Cambridge: P.14869-R

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Titles

Shoeblack, Caius College, Cambridge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Orde, Thomas
Draughtsman: Orde, Thomas (After)

Entities

Satirical print

Categories

Print

Description

Etching on paper. Half-length portrait of a middle-aged man turned three-quarters towards the right. He wears a battered bicorn hat, with apron over and gauntlets. He is engaged in brushing a shoe held in his hands. Within an etched border. Etched onto the plate and partly within the image at lower left: 'T.Orde'. Etched onto the plate and within the image at lower right: 'inv.t et fec.t 1768'. Inscribed in a modern hand in pen and ink on the artist's board onto which the print is laid down: '_SHOEBLACK, CAIUS COLLEGE_'. See impressions in the British Museum collection: 1851,0308.645 and 1847,0713.59. Orde also produced an etching of a female shoeblack from Trinity College in the same year. See BM 1851,0308.630.

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Acquisition and important dates

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1768

Note

Height 103mm x width 83mm

School or Style

Techniques used in production

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14869-R
Primary reference Number: 225479
Stephens/George: 4264
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Monday 7 January 2019

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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