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  • Shoemakers: machinery used in the making of shoes. Engraving.
  • Street-hawkers and shoemakers
  • Shoemakers: interior view and various tools used in the making of shoe-horns. Etching with engraving.
  • James Woodhouse, shoemaker and poet. Etching, 1765.
  • A shoemaker making slippers. Watercolour by an Indian painter.
  • An overcrowded shoemaker's workshop in Somers Town: more care for the "soles" than the bodies.
  • School for Adults, Shoemaking class.
  • A woman sitting on a sofa with a devotional book in her hand as a shoemaker fits a shoe to her foot. Etching.
  • A woman sitting on a sofa with a devotional book in her hand as a shoemaker fits a shoe to her foot. Etching.
  • A man tied to a stump by a chain around his neck; a Chinese shoemaker at work. Coloured stipple by A. Freschi, ca. 1812.
  • An old shoemaker is stitching a boot as a young woman leans over him holding a jug in her hand. Engraving by P. Duflos, 1778 after D. van Tol.
  • A shoemaker who has exchanged looks with a young woman customer lies on the floor holding his head as a woman (his wife?) attacks him with a spoon. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A shoemaker measures up the feet of a young woman who is sitting on a chair holding a shoe in her hand; they exchange looks as they are watched by a displeased woman (his wife?) who is holding a spoon. Coloured lithograph.
  • Westringia longifolia R.Br. Lamiaceae. Long leaf Westringia. Shrub. Distribution: Australia. Commemorates Dr Johan (John) Peter Westring (sometimes West Ring (1753-1833), also known as Johan Petter Westrin), physician to King Karl XIV of Sweden, and a keen lichenologist. He was born in Linköping, Sweden, where his father was a shoemaker. No information has been found for any medicinal use or toxicity, Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A Chinese cobbler. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • 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 clog-carver working in a daylight-basement with a window on to the street; another man sits on a stool in the street talking to him while smoking a pipe; a dog sleeps on the roof over the window. Etching by Adriaen van Ostade.
  • 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 physician thinking that a cobbler's use of the title "D.M." means that he is a Doctor of Medicine. Coloured etching.
  • 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.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • 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.
  • Indian cobbler and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian cobbler and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • 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.
  • Two craftsmen making thimbles. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A cobbler purposely disturbing his beautiful wife and a rich merchant from beginning to repay his debt with sexual favours. Etching by P. Fillœul, 1736, after J.-B. Pater.