The cheerful cobler [graphic]Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker[not before 15 April 1808]eng"A cobbler, broadly grinning, holds up a long thread and recounts a long tongue-twister beginning, 'When a twister a twisting, will twist him a twist', to the diversion of two sailors, who remark, 'Scuttle my hammock, Jib, if this here fellow does not beat our parson.', 'I think so messmate and the surgeon into the bargain.'; a sign above the cobbler's shop reads, 'Men and womens soles translated, their understand-ings mended - uprights rectified - and quarters restiched. by J Cook - Knt. of St. Crispin, and secular twister to the parish of Sheeperton'; a gloomy parson looks out from a cottage window opposite, underneath a sign reading, 'Abraham Amen parish clerk and sexton', the notice in the house next door reads, 'Iohn Heavan. Apothecary and undertaker'."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker's signature etched in bottom part of image, with "sculpt." lightly printed and barely visible.Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. April 15th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Library of Congress call no.: PC 3 - 1808 - Cheerful cobler.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.Also issued separately."Price one shillg. color'd"--Within design.Plate numbered "160" in upper right corner.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.Temporary local subject terms: Cobblers -- Apothecaries.Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies.1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.Watermark: 1817.Leaf 15 in volume 3.