“cobler'hall” Engraving In Black, Bowles & Carver London (after 1793) Cherry Frame 1820/30

“Cobler'Hall” Engraving in black
Printed for, and sold by, Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. (after 1793)
(very light dirt on the periphery, margins partly missing 35x26.8 Visible)
In a probably English frame around 1820/1830 in molded cherry with light fillet.
Old bubbled mirror (a small loss in the glass shows at the edge under the frame)
(external dimensions of the frame 34.5 x 43)

- €140 -

Description of the original plate: 1 print: mezzotint on vellum paper, with etching; Plate mark 25.3 x 35.8 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm
Undated reissue, with change of publisher's name, of a print first published by Carington Bowles, probably in 1778. (Cf . Catalog of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786: Key to ... mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.)
Date of publication deduced from the paper and date of the association Bowles & Carver formed after the death of Carington Bowles in 1793.
Plate number: 380.
In a large room, the left side being a shoemaker's workshop, the right side a kitchen, a shoemaker sitting on a bench, in front of an open window, his hammer in his hand. Behind him, on a table are dishes and food, and to the right, a woman in an apron is cooking with a large frying pan on the grate. On the walls are displayed a number of tools, shoemaker forms, irons and tableware. An equestrian print with a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland on horseback hangs above the mantle, and a caged bird hangs above the shoemaker. A staircase is partially visible in the background, and a dog and a cat sleep on the ground in the foreground. (documentary source, Yale University Library web page)

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