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A Shoeblack at Peterhouse: P.14881-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Shoeblack at Peterhouse

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Orde, Thomas

Entities

Categories

Description

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'.

Legal notes

Unknown

Acquisition and important dates

by unknown

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1768

Note

Height 127mm (plate) x width 90mm (plate)

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Drypoint
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14881-R
Primary reference Number: 225492
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Monday 7 January 2019 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "A Shoeblack at Peterhouse" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/225492 Accessed: 2024-12-23 00:59:28

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