Mother Shepherd, shoe-cleaner to Sidney College: P.14871-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Mother Shepherd, shoe-cleaner to Sidney College

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hutchinson, Robert (printmaker, died 1773)
Draughtsman: Hutchinson, Robert (printmaker, died 1773) (After)

Entities

Satirical print

Categories

Print

Description

Etching and drypoint on paper. Portrait of an old woman known as 'Mother Shepherd' who was a shoe-cleaner at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 'Sidney' was often used as an informal name for the college. Head and shoulders to front, cross-eyed, with a wart above her left eye, facing the viewer. She wears a shawl and bonnet. Within an etched border. Below the border, etched onto the plate at lower left: 'Hutchinson delin.t et sculp.t 1773 / Mother SHEPHERD / Shoe-cleaner to / SIDNEY COLLEGE Aet: 78'. Inscribed below in graphite onto the mount board: 'By Robert Hutchinson / brother of William Hutchinson who wrote / a history of Co Durham'.

Legal notes

Unknown

Acquisition and important dates

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1773

Note

Height 114mm (cut to platemark) x width 77mm (cut to platemark)

School or Style

Techniques used in production

Drypoint
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14871-R
Primary reference Number: 225481
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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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            University of Cambridge}}

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