A Bedmaker at Cambridge. 1770
Printmaker: Topham, Edward
Etching on paper. Full-length portrait of an old woman seen in three-quarter profile to the right, who carries a pail in her right hand and wears a large, flat, wide-brimmed 'hat' on her head over a mob cap. Her sleeves are rolled up and there is a tear in her apron. Scratched onto the plate at lower left: 'Topham fecit'. An inscription in pen an ink below the platemark in the lower margin: 'A Bedmaker at Cambridge. 1770'. Dorothy George describes this print as 6354 in her Addenda to Vol. 5 as '[Cream-Woman of Trin. Coll. Cambr.]', a title which is written onto the BM impression in an old hand. The title assigned to the BM print would seem to be a more likely description of the woman's occupation.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Circa
1770
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Circa
1771
Height 107mm (plate) x width 68mm (plate)
Accession number: P.14880-R
Primary reference Number: 225491
Stephens/George: 6354
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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