File:The York (Shoe) Warehouse (BM 1868,0808.6149).jpg

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The York [Shoe] Warehouse   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
The York [Shoe] Warehouse
Description
English: The interior of a shoemaker's shop; in which ladies are being fitted with shoes similar in size to those of the Duchess of York. Between the words of the title is a low-heeled slipper with a rosette inscribed 'The exact Size not a Barley corn longer. Drawn from One worn on the Wedding day.' (It is 5 7/8 in.) A shoemaker kneels at the feet of an enormously fat toy seated in profile to the right, trying to force a small slipper onto her large foot. She says, clutching her chair in agony, "Oh! dear Sir! I am afraid you wont get it in". He answers, "Never fear, give me leave to try - push a little Ma'am - to be sure its rather small for a person full grown like you - but I can stretch it, if you please." Behind (left) a lady has started from her seat, supporting herself by the back of the first customer's chair, her mouth wide as if shrieking. A kneeling shopman tries to get a shoe on her feet, saying, "You'll take a larger Size Miss - my Master shall wait on you." She answers, "Good heaven! why, the Man is mad. I am quite loose - a size smaller I want - its only an ugly corn that makes me cry out." A third lady (right), in profile to the right, hobbles painfully to the door (right), her feet in tiny slippers. She holds a huge muff. On the lintel of the door is an oval bust portrait of the Duchess of York; beneath is inscribed 'Proudfoot Shoemaker'. In each of the many panes of the shop-window are pairs of slippers. On the wall is a placard: 'Corns Cut. Feet pared and sweated down to the Fashionable Size on very Easy terms.' 16 January 1792
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Depicted people Associated with: Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherine of Prussia, Duchess of York
Date 1792
date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 247 millimetres
Width: 350 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6149
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6149
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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