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Cobbler Foot. Vendor of Strap Oil, &c. to the Collegians of St. Peter's Westminster.
Painted & drawn on Stone by J. Hayes. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce lithograph on chine collé. 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"), with large margins. Slight spotting.
Three-quarter length portrait of a cobbler, standing, holding a strap and papers. George Keppel (1799-1891), 6th Earl of Albemarle, who attended Westminster from 1809 to 1815 (when he fought at Waterloo). In his memoir 'Fifty Years of My Life', he tells how he left school after curfew: 'I took into my counsel the school Crispin, one Cobbler Foot by name, an old man-of-war’s man, and he made for me a rope ladder, a ''Jacob's ladder,'' I think they call it, similar to that made for ascending the sides of ships of small burden. Thus provided, I climbed the wall with much less risk to my neck than via the lamp iron''.
[Ref: 60143] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & drawn on Stone by J. Hayes. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce lithograph on chine collé. 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"), with large margins. Slight spotting.
Three-quarter length portrait of a cobbler, standing, holding a strap and papers. George Keppel (1799-1891), 6th Earl of Albemarle, who attended Westminster from 1809 to 1815 (when he fought at Waterloo). In his memoir 'Fifty Years of My Life', he tells how he left school after curfew: 'I took into my counsel the school Crispin, one Cobbler Foot by name, an old man-of-war’s man, and he made for me a rope ladder, a ''Jacob's ladder,'' I think they call it, similar to that made for ascending the sides of ships of small burden. Thus provided, I climbed the wall with much less risk to my neck than via the lamp iron''.
[Ref: 60143] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)