Code: 11744
“Boot & Shoe Shop” (from “Poetical Sketches of Scarborough”)
Etched by Thomas Rowlandson after James Green
Aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadler
With original hand-colour
Published by Rudolph Ackermann
London 1813
Measures:-
13.5 cm high x 20.5 cm wide (image)
21.5 cm high x 29 cm wide (framed)
Entitled beneath “BOOT & SHOE SHOP’ and with artists’ and publisher’s details “J Green delt”; “J C Stadler sculpt”; “Pub 1813 at R Ackermann 101 Strand”.
A charming depiction of a provincial shoe-shop and cobbler of the Regency Era. Made as one of the twenty-one illustrations for James Buonarotti Papworth’s “Poetical Sketches of Scarborough”. Rowlandson engraved the humorous plates taken-from on-the-scene drawings made by the portrait painter James Green as a souvenir of a trip to Scarborough in the year 1812.
Framed in a nice antique burr maple frame.
