In a large room, the left side being a cobbler's workshop, the right a kitchen, a cobbler sits on a bench, before an open window, his hammer in hand. Behind him, on a table are dishes and food, and to the right a woman in an apron cooks with a large f...
Alternative Title:
Cobbler's hall
Description:
Undated reissue, with publisher's name changed, of a print first published by Carington Bowles most likely in 1778. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786: Key to ... mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her hi...
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
Volume 1, page 9. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A road-side scene; two horsemen stand by their horses outside a farrier's shed (left). One horse is held by a youth, the farrier stands beside it arguing with the rider who stands with his whip under his arm. The second (right) stands behind, beside ...
