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  • A mechanical housemaid constructed from pieces of household equipment. Engraving by G. Bickham the younger.
  • A physician is examining a boil on a woman servant's arm, and asks if she has had boils in any other places: she replies that she has, but that there were also Jewish people there. Lithograph after F. Jüttner, 1909.
  • Two maids confer on whether to 'refresh' a sick man even further by putting cold water into his enema. Lithograph by Cham, c. 1840.
  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • A maid puts a key down a man's shirt to stop his nosebleed. Lithograph, c. 1835-1841.
  • The birth of Pyrrhus, his mother Deidamia (?) recovers in bed while servants wash and tend him. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1797, after A. Carracci.
  • An obese gouty man with his feet in buckets. Coloured aquatint.
  • A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.
  • A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.
  • There is beauty in a hand free from roughness : Snowfire Glycerine Jelly Vanishing.
  • There is beauty in a hand free from roughness : Snowfire Glycerine Jelly Vanishing.
  • A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
  • Judith and her maid put the head of Holofernes into a bag. Engraving by A. Smith.
  • Three vignettes of people promoting the use of 'Pears soap'. Photomechanical reproduction after D.E. Wyund.
  • A maid shows an old man his smallpocked face in a hand mirror. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.
  • Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.
  • Judith and her maid hide Holofernes' head. Woodcut.
  • Judith with Holofernes' head; her maid behind her. Line engraving after C. Allori.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary. Engraving by R. Van Audenaerd after A. Carracci.
  • A mother wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages, with a child, the baby's nurse, and two other servants. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1633.
  • A woman wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages after breast feeding it, several other women and a small child sit with her. Engraving by A. Bosse.
  • A mother wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages, with a child, the baby's nurse, and two other servants. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1633.
  • A midwife wrapping the Virgin Mary in swaddling clothes after receiving her first bath; Anne is recuperating in bed. Engraving by C. Faucci, 1764, after G.B. Cipriani after Pietro da Cortona.
  • The newly born Virgin Mary is washed by maids; her mother lies in white on the bed. Coloured engraving by P. Bouttats.
  • The newly born Virgin Mary is washed by maids; her mother lies in white on the bed. Coloured engraving by P. Bouttats.
  • The Virgin Mary as an infant among maids. Engraving.
  • A woman being shown her newborn child for the final time before she receives the last rites. Engraving by A.H. Payne after C. Piloty.
  • A woman giving birth in an elaborate room aided by a midwife and a nun and surrounded by her husband and family. Engraving by A. Bosse.
  • An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
  • An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.