The Dress-Maker

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A woman looks to her right while her hand pulls on the thread with which she sews a piece of garment

The dress-maker.

(Facing p. 1.)

Artist

Name:: Meadows, Joseph Kenny
Dates:: 1790-1874
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Smith, John Orrin
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Harold B. Lee Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Heads of the people: or, Portraits of the English, vol. 1
Author:: Collective work
Publisher:: London: Robert Tyas, 1840
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Description:

A young woman wearing her hair looped back at the sides is seen looking to her right while her hand holding a needle pulls on the thread with which she is sewing a piece of lacy garment by candlelight.

The illustration is complemented by the following quotation from William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1: Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks…

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