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The tailor and cobler
Title
The tailor and cobler [graphic].
Publication
[Alnwick] : Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick, [between 1812 and 1817]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 17.3 x 23.7 cm, on sheet 19.5 x 26.3 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date suggested by Isaac.
Four lines of verse below caption title: Behold the Tailor full of Liquor, The funny Cobler makes him sicker, No longer he for Ale can call, The needle's conquered by the awl.
Plate numbered "33" in upper right corner.
Provenance
From the Ian Robertson Collection.
Summary
A tailor and cobbler, both are partially bald, are seated with their backs to roaring fire in the grate of a fireplace. The cobbler is sitting at a table with a glass and tankard in front of him; he is smoking a pipe and blowing the smoke into the tailor's face. The tailor sits slumped forward in a state of evident inebriation and his own pipe lies broken on the floor. On the wall behind them is a picture of a man seated under a tree sketching(?) the rural scene in front of him, a church with a steeple in the distance.
Variant and related titles
Tailor and cobbler
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 08, 2019
References
Isaac, P. Some Alnwick caricatures, no. 33
Genre/Form
Etchings - England - Alnwick - 1812.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1812.
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