print
- Museum number
- G,12.111
- Title
- Object: The Merchant Taylors
- Description
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A tailor's workshop with a long window in front of which tailors are sitting cross-legged on a bench as they work; a small boy brings them a flat iron and a young woman carries a large jug; in the foreground, a customer is being measured for a coat; surrounded by an elaborate frame incorporating a pair of shears and other tailoring equipment, and, at the bottom, the coat of arms of the Merchant Taylor's Company. 29 June 1749
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1749
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 336 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a note on Crowle's extra-illustrated Pennant, see G.1.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2003 May-Nov, BM, London 1753
- Acquisition date
- 1811
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- G,12.111
