IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225479 accession number: P.14869-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: satirical print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225479 TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1768 - 1768 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1768 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Orde, Thomas maker: Orde, Thomas