Yorkshire: four cloth-dressers (croppers) smoothing a sheet of wool. Coloured aquatint by R.& D. Havell, 1813, after G. Walker.

  • Walker, George, 1781-1856.
Date:
Sept.1. 1813
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30956i
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Leeds : Robinson & Son, Sept.1. 1813.

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1 print : aquatint, with etching and watercolour ; image 19.7 x 30 cm

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G. Walker del. Engraved by R. & D. Havell. In pencil on verso of impression catalogued: "Shearing woollen cloth to remove the nap"

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Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860 : from the library of J. R. Abbey, San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991, pp. 360-361, no. 432.6 ("The cloth-dresser")

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Wellcome Collection 30956i

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