A Shoeblack at Peterhouse
Printmaker: Orde, Thomas
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'.
Unknown
by unknown
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1768
Height 127mm (plate) x width 90mm (plate)
Accession number: P.14881-R
Primary reference Number: 225492
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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