Wednesday, 7 October 2026

A Shoe Seller Displaying Sample Wares in an Eighteenth-Century Print

Hand-coloured print of a woman in a flower-trimmed straw hat holding a strapped tray of sample shoes, with boots hanging from her skirt.

A commonplace sight of the eighteenth century: a shoe-seller with her samples. Little golden slippers, fur-trimmed shoes and lace-ups, boots, mules and hefty brogues. A pair of the slutanskie ones for me, please

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