The Cheerful Cobler

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The Cheerful Cobler
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Etching with original hand colour drawn by Woodward, published 'by Thos Tegg in Cheapside'  Not dated, but c. 1808.

Image size: 245mm x 350 mm plus margins

Very good condition throughout.  Colour original, authentic and still bright.

A grinning cobbler holds up a long thread and recounts a long tongue-twister beginning, 'When a twister a twisting, will twist him a twist', to the diversion of two sailors, who remark, 'Scuttle my hammock, Jib, if this here fellow does not beat our parson.', 'I think so messmate and the surgeon into the bargain.'; a sign above the cobbler's shop reads, 'Men and womens soles translated, their understand-ings mended - uprights rectified - and quarters restiched. by J Cook - Knt. of St. Crispin, and secular twister to the parish of Sheeperton'; a gloomy parson looks out from a cottage window opposite, underneath a sign reading, 'Abraham Amen parish clerk and sexton', the notice in the house next door reads, 'Iohn Heavan. Apothecary and undertaker'.

Futher details, see: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/17339715

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