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Images from the collections

Images about Shoes

28 images from works
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.
  • An allegorical figure wearing a large variety of surgical instruments including some on his head and hands. Etching after an engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • The Virgin looks away from her Bible as the angel appears, bearing lilies. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. de Weerdt.
  • A shoemender and a tailor sitting on benches repairing old shoes and clothes. Etching by R. Dagley.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • Dry feet and easy shoes... : Jones's celebrated waterproof composition... : Jones's Gloucestershire Specific for foot-rot in sheep : a disinfectant : the most speedy and certain cure, without injury to the foot / manufactured and sold wholesale, retail, and for exportation, by John Milton Jones, Gloucester.
  • Your child's first shoes : no hard seams, support and protection, real leather uppers, fully adjustable, light and flexible anti-slip soles, room for chubby feet / Clarks Ltd.
  • An allegorical figure wearing a large variety of surgical instruments including some on his head and hands. Etching after an engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.

Works from the collections

93 works

    • Books

    Love is.... Divine : latest additions / Divine.

    Divine (Firm, Earls Barton, England) | Date: [2002?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Beware of misfits : take your child to a shop where trained staff measure length, width and girth / Clarks Ltd.

    | Date: [1973?]
    • Books

    The book of the feet, a history of boots and shoes. With illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period; Also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc / J. Sparkes Hall.

    Hall, Joseph Sparkes. | Date: [between 1840 and 1849?]
    • Pictures

    Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 27912i
    • Books

    The shoemaker's birthday party / Lotus.

    | Date: [between 1960 and 1969]

Related topics

Foot
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Child Development
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