Female Shoeblack
Printmaker:
Topham, Edward
Draughtsman:
Topham, Edward
(After)
Etching on laid paper. An old woman, full-length, walking from left to right, her shoulders directed towards the right and face seen in profile. She wears a hat with a brim over a mob cap and a checked shawl around her head and neck. Her sleeves are rolled up and she wears an apron with the edge of some checked fabric seen below. She carries a pair of shoes without buckles in her right hand and a small pail with block/implement inside (shoeblack?) in her left. Etched onto the plate at lower right: 'Topham inven: et fecit.'. This print is described by Dorothy George in her Addenda to Vol. V as '[A Cambridge Woman-Servant?]', a title which written onto the BM impression in an old hand. See references.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1771
Height 186mm (plate) x width 138mm (plate)
Accession number: P.14878-R
Primary reference Number: 225489
Stephens/George: 6355
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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