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A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A maker of shoes and boots is selling shoes to a woman at the window of his workshop, as his assistants sew and hammer footwear. Woodcut by J. Amman.

A gipsy woman, advertising Gipsy Queen Hygiene Shoes. Colour lithograph, 19--.

Footwear for children, correct and incorrect. Colour lithograph, 1922.

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Footwear

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A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

Footwear for children, correct and incorrect. Colour lithograph, 1922.

A gipsy woman, advertising Gipsy Queen Hygiene Shoes. Colour lithograph, 19--.

Footwear

Images from the collections

Images referencing Footwear

Works from the collections

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

Footwear for children, correct and incorrect. Colour lithograph, 1922.

A gipsy woman, advertising Gipsy Queen Hygiene Shoes. Colour lithograph, 19--.

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