Extent of Digitization: Unspecified / Genre: Etchings England London 1777 / Subject (Topic): Workshops

Published / Created:: [4 November 1777]
Call Number:: 777.11.04.01+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: 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
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Corsets, Fashion, Wife abuse, Couples, Shoemakers, Workshops, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Furniture, and Interiors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].