A Shoeblack at Peterhouse: P.14881-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Shoeblack at Peterhouse

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Orde, Thomas

Entities

Print

Categories

Print

Description

Etching on paper. A full-length portrait of an old woman, facing the viewer and looking directly outwards, who wears a large, floppy, wide-brimmed hat over a mob cap, a shawl and apron. She holds a shoe in her right hand and a brush in her left and is in the act of brushing the shoe. Scratched onto the plate at lower right: 'T.Orde f / 1768'. Written in pen and ink on the artist's board onto which this print is laid down: 'A Shoeblack at Peterhouse'. An inscription on the verso of the artist's board, which transcribes the verso of the print, describes the subject as, 'A shoeblack at St. Peters / College in Cambridge'.

Legal notes

Unknown

Acquisition and important dates

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1768

Note

Height 127mm (plate) x width 90mm (plate)

School or Style

Techniques used in production

Drypoint
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14881-R
Primary reference Number: 225492
Stable URI

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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            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "A Shoeblack at Peterhouse" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225492 Accessed: 2024-05-03 00:28:54

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            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225492
            |title=A Shoeblack at Peterhouse
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-05-03 00:28:54|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

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