Mother Shepherd, shoe-cleaner to Sidney College
Printmaker:
Hutchinson, Robert (printmaker, died 1773)
Draughtsman:
Hutchinson, Robert (printmaker, died 1773)
(After)
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'.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1773
Height 114mm (cut to platemark) x width 77mm (cut to platemark)
Accession number: P.14871-R
Primary reference Number: 225481
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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