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An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Date

[ca, 1840?]

Reference

20044i

Clothing ephemera. Box 3.

The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.

Date

8 August 1931

Reference

16806i

A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.

Date

1829

Reference

525732i

A tailor riding on the back of a goose; representing an exploited worker. Etching after W.H.Bunbury.

Date

[1780?]

Reference

29999i

A tailor cutting cloth with scissors while his colleagues sew at a bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Date

[1568]

Reference

34979i

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1763.

Date

June ye 25 1735 [i.e. 1763]

Reference

20040i

A tailor and his wife are assisting two men into suits of clothing, although the clothes are ill-fitting. Etching.

Date

Decr. 10th 1791

Reference

35289i

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1735.

Date

25 June 1735

Reference

20042i

Merchant Tailors' School, Suffolk Lane, London: facade. Etching by Sheppard, 1815, after himself.

Date

1 October 1815

Reference

24392i

A stage scene showing an interior where a masked man in a close-fitting striped dress stands before a table on which sits a volume of the House of Commons, beyond which is an open window showing tailors at work in a building opposite. Engraving, 1769.

Date

[Jan 26 1769]

Reference

583483i

Marratta tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

Reference

32527i

A tailor and assistant at work. Gouache drawing.

Reference

28356i

Court hearing of a dispute in which a doctor refuses to pay his tailor for some unsatisfactory breeches. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1802, after G.M. Woodward.

Date

28 May 1802

Reference

10976i

Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

Reference

32819i

The homeworker and the outlook : a descriptive study of tailoresses and boxmakers / by V. de Vesselitsky.

Date

1916

Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

Reference

28974i

Singapore: three native people known as "klings", and one "dhirzie" or tailor. Photographs by J. Taylor, c. 1880.

Date

1880

Reference

32246i

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle while two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1735.

Date

1735

Reference

20045i

A tailor fishing on a river bank is cowering away from a man with a large cosh hidden behind his back, who robs him of his hat, coat and boots. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 183-.

Date

1830-1839

Reference

31616i

Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Reference

28776i

A tailor holding out a folding swatch of cloth samples. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.

Date

20th Decr. 1773

Reference

30001i

The search : N. Kayser, merchant tailor, 256 West 31st Street, near 8th Avenue New York.

Date

[1882?]

A man is woken by the ghost of a friend calling to him: he crosses his bedroom in a nightshirt and holding a candle, and is annoyed to find it is a cat. Engraving, 1801.

Date

24t jany. 1801

Reference

36025i

A hunchbacked jester to the sultan of Kashgar, invited to dinner with a tailor and his wife, dies through choking on a fish bone. Etching, 1787, by S. Watts after H.W. Bunbury.

Date

Feby. 1st. 1787

Reference

2477173i