IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225492 accession number: P.14881-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Monday 7 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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'. title: 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/225492 TECHNIQUES ---------- drypoint TECHNIQUES ---------- etching CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1768 - 1768 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1768 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Orde, Thomas