Title

'The Cobbler's Happy Family', (c1900). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'The Cobbler's Happy Family', (c1900). Domestic scene showing a cobbler's workshop in the family home; the cobbler and his assistant making and repairing shoes, wife at the bellows with a cauldron over the fire, a child feeding a baby, and a customer leaning in. Print after 'Cobbler's family', a painting made late 18th-early 19th century by Thomas Rowlandson. From English water-colour with reproductions of drawings by eminent painters, edited by Charles Holme, published by The Studio Library, [c1900]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1900

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D49_463

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

48,0Mb (4,1Mb) / 16,8in x 11,1in / 5030 x 3335 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings female women woman people male child children interior indoors job man men house family happiness happy industry trade guy occupation fire British color colour contentment century customer Britain profession inside lady concept watercolour metaphor cobbler shoemaker 19th century 18th century cottage industry Eighteenth Century nineteenth century shoemaking bellows The Print Collector cauldron shoe-mender Charles Thomas Rowlandson Unknown Holme Charles Holme Rowlandson Thomas Charles Holme