IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225481 accession number: P.14871-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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'. 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/225481 TECHNIQUES ---------- drypoint TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1773 - 1773 creation date earliest: 1773 creation date latest: 1773 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Hutchinson, Robert (printmaker, died 1773) maker: Hutchinson, Robert (printmaker, died 1773)