Person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally

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A tailor riding on the back of a goose; representing an exploited worker. Etching after W.H.Bunbury.

The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1735.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

A tailor cutting cloth with scissors while his colleagues sew at a bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Singapore: three native people known as "klings", and one "dhirzie" or tailor. Photographs by J. Taylor, c. 1880.

A tailor and his wife are assisting two men into suits of clothing, although the clothes are ill-fitting. Etching.

Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

A tailor holding out a folding swatch of cloth samples. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.

Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.

Isaac Day laceman at the Peacock & Turks ... Covent Garden : maketh and selleth all sorts of gold and silver laces and trimings, made in the same manner as the French laces, & will keep their colour as long.

A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.

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Tailors

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An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Isaac Day laceman at the Peacock & Turks ... Covent Garden : maketh and selleth all sorts of gold and silver laces and trimings, made in the same manner as the French laces, & will keep their colour as long.

The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.

A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.

A tailor riding on the back of a goose; representing an exploited worker. Etching after W.H.Bunbury.

Tailors

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Images referencing Tailors

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An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Isaac Day laceman at the Peacock & Turks ... Covent Garden : maketh and selleth all sorts of gold and silver laces and trimings, made in the same manner as the French laces, & will keep their colour as long.

The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.

A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.

A tailor riding on the back of a goose; representing an exploited worker. Etching after W.H.Bunbury.

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