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  • Burma: a lady attended by two standing bodyguards and by a servant holding a parasol. Watercolour.
  • An invalid in bed groaning at his servant's grammatical error. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • Left, a woman cleaning her teeth; right, a servant brings washing water. Woodcut by Shigemasa, 1778.
  • A fashionable man and woman accompanied by a maid-servant and a boy servant; the woman, who wears an elaborately decorated pyramid wig, carries a dog under her right arm and looks admiringly at her male companion. Engraving, c. 1772.
  • A disgruntled gouty man ringing a bell for his servant who is just leaving the room. Etching.
  • A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
  • A servant leading an Arab horse with a richly decorated saddle. Chalk lithograph by V. J. Adam.
  • A burdar or servant holding a long stick, a badge of his office. Drawing by an Indian artist.
  • Rebecca admires the clothes and jewellery given to her by Abraham's servant. Watercolour painting by Juliana Howard, 1824.
  • Chumah, David Livingstone's personal servant, seated on a wooden stool, holding his cap in his hand. Wood engraving.
  • A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
  • Chief servant in a European household, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, ca. 1808-1812.
  • China: a Manchu lady having her hair dressed by her servant girl, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady having her hair dressed by her servant girl, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
  • A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.
  • A town gentlemen exclaiming to his servant about a extremely long doctor's bill. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1823.
  • A man carrying two ducks followed by a servant carrying a basket of fruit. Watercolour by an Indian painter.
  • A servant standing on a carpet and holding a stick with a tiger head. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A servant standing next to a dining table, holding a fly whisk. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Jacko, a boy carrying a bow and arrows, acting as servant to Verney Lovett Cameron. Wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
  • An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
  • A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
  • A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
  • A Russian nobleman riding with his servant and smoking a hooka. Coloured lithograph by D. Dighton, c. 1820, after A. Orlowski.