Loan (Exhibition)
Fitzwilliam Museum, 24 March to 5 September 2015, Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Event Date
Author: maa

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Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card has the following entry: "ELIZABETHAN FIND"
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Loan (Exhibition)
Peterborough Museum, 19 January - late April 2017, Tremendous Tudors
Event Date
Author: maa

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Context (Field collection)
This pair of Elizabethan shoes were found with other articles (a-g) under a floor of the room known as the 'Shoe makers' room', in the old court of Corpus Christie College 1852.

Event Date 1852
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Acquisition Details)
Acquired by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 1852-1853. The 1853 Report reads: '....found in a disused recess and under a floor at Corpus Christi College. See "Communications".'
Event Date 1853
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Babington, Charles. (1859). 'On some Antiquities found in Corpus Christi College in the year 1852' In 'Antiquarian Communications', Vol. 1, pp 50-54. University Press: Cambridge.
Event Date 1859
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
Pair of shoes. Thin leather. Slashed.
Event Date 27/1/1987
Author: maa

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The original transcription of this card entered it with Archaeological material from Cambridgeshire, and hence the Department was given as Archaeology. However, as the items now appear amongst the Anthropology Department' s holdings, I have altered the record accordingly. N.B. The original entry gave 'Corpus Christi College' as the provenance, but the card reads: ' Christ's College'. [signed M.G.A.]
Event Date 2/2/1989
Author: maa

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Context (Amendments / updates)
After researching this and associated objects, suggest that 1883.692 A-F were found under the floor of the room known as the 'Shoe-maker's Room' in the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, and that 1883.692 (comb) and 1983.692 G (wood carvings) were found in a small cupboard in the Old Court with the leather objects in 1852. The Accession Register entry wrongly states the origin as Christ's College. Note with record clearly states find location as Corpus Christi College. All objects now reverted to Archaeology and index cards stored together in Arch. files.
Event Date 2/9/2002
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Pair of black slashed shoes.
Event Date 28/6/2005
Author: Annie Tomkins

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Context (References)
Avery, L., M. Calaresu and M. Laven (eds). (2015). Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. pp. 117 & 267-268 (cat. 106), fig. 125.
Event Date 2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment', Adeane Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, 24 March to 6 September 2015.
Event Date 3/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Tremendous Tudors', Peterborough Museum, 20 January to 30 April 2017.
Event Date 19/1/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
A pair of slashed leather shoes with rounded toes. Upper made from thin leather sewn with light brown thread; leather slashed in linear patterns. Foot opening has a border of scalloped decoration. Soles of hard, thickened leather sewn to upper.
Event Date 6/9/2022
Author: Annie Tomkins