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24 images from works
  • The workplace of a shoemender next to a tavern: the shoemender has gone next door for a drink in the company of the barman. Lithograph by N.L. Delaunois, 1832, after E.J. Pigal.
  • A Scottish musical shoemaker: he sits on a bench and contemplates the sole of a shoe he is holding; on the floor and resting against the bench are a violin, a recorder, and a book of music scores. Etching by Walter Geikie.
  • An old fish seller is selling fish on the doorstep to a woman in front of her house, while another woman is examining the fish; a shoemender looks on. Engraving by J.F. Beauvarlet after M. Carré.
  • James Woodhouse, shoemaker and poet. Etching, 1765.
  • A man of occult learning arrives at the house of a cobbler and his wife: the cobbler insults him, the wife defends him. Coloured engraving by L. Truchy after F. Hayman.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • A cobbler sits on a stool in front of a wooden jointed figure which he has created in order to give himself respect. Engraving by J. Neagle after H. Singleton.
  • A Chinese cobbler. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A shoemaker sits on a bench with a tankard of ale in his hands, his tools are lying around him and a pair of shoes are on the window sill. Mezzotint by J. Dean, 1786.
  • Lord Goderich shaving, and Lord Howick shoeing, a group of slaves: referring to the abolitionists. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1832.
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Works from the collections

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House furnishings
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Shoes
Caste - India