188 results filtered with: Household employees
- Ephemera
Domestic servants policy / The London Assurance.
London Assurance.Date: 1915- Pictures
Servants taking food to their master; illustrating a scene in Murer's play 'Edessa'. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26706iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova- Books
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The complete servant : being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables / by Samuel and Sarah Adams.
Adams, Samuel, active 1825.Date: 1825- Pictures
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Judith and her maid put the head of Holofernes into a bag. Engraving by A. Smith.
Reference: 20914i- Pictures
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The adoration of the shepherds. Engraving by C.J. Visscher after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Reference: 21934i- Books
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Directions to servants in general; And in particular to the butler, cook, footman, coachman, groom, house-steward, and land-steward, porter, dairy-maid, chamber-maid, nurse, laundress; house-keeper, tutoress, or governess. By the Rev. Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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Household work; or, the duties of female servants. Practically and economically illustrated, through the respective grades of maid-of-all-work, house and parlour-maid, and laundry-maid : with many valuable recipes for facilitating labour in every department / prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley.
Date: 1850- Pictures
The newly born Virgin Mary is washed by maids; her mother lies in white on the bed. Coloured engraving by P. Bouttats.
Bouttats, Philibert, 1654 or 1655-Reference: 20987i- Ephemera
Hudson's Dry Soap : once used always used ... directions for using ... / [R.S. Hudson].
R. S. Hudson Limited.Date: [1880?]- Pictures
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A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
Reference: 21798i- Pictures
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A midwife presenting a new born royal (?) baby to its father and to the royal court. Etching.
Reference: 17228i- Pictures
Tobit chooses the angel to accompany Tobias on his journey. Engraving by G. Pencz, c. 1540.
Pencz, Georg, 1500?-1550.Reference: 20906i- Pictures
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An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 25 June 1791Reference: 26889i- Pictures
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A baffled doctor taking the pulse of a love-sick young woman, her maid slips a billet-doux secretly into her hand. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 11202i- Pictures
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The birth of John the Baptist. Etching by C. Maratta after himself.
Maratti, Carlo, 1625-1713.Reference: 21801i- Books
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Directions to servants in general; and in particular to the Butler, Cook, Footman, Coachman, Groom, House-Steward, and Land-Steward, Porter, Dairy-Maid, Chamber-Maid, Nurse, Laundress, House-Keeper. Tutoress, or Governess. By the Reverend Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: printed in the year M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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Religious courtship: being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only. As also of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with one another. With an appendix of the Necessity of taking none but Religious Servants, and a Proposal for the better managing of Servants.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1766- Pictures
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A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: 1826Reference: 664596iPart of: Busby's humorous etchings- Pictures
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Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
Verdier, François, 1651-1730.Date: 1698Reference: 18454iPart of: Histoire de Samson- Pictures
A man and a woman dining together; a servant enters the room. Photograph after G. Metsu.
Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.Reference: 3064094i- Pictures
Phyllis, in the opera "The lady slavey". Etching.
Date: [189?-?]Reference: 673097i- Pictures
A doctor taking the pulse of a country squire; the smug doctor receives a drink from the butler while his disgruntled patient's medicine is prepared by the maid. Lithograph by W. Hunt, 1825, after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 10 January 1825Reference: 11181i- Pictures
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A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, John.Date: 28 January 1804Reference: 12070i- Pictures
A lecherous old man leans over to a molest a woman who holds a bottle and drinking glass. Mezzotint by J. Smith, c. 1700, after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1700Reference: 26536i- Pictures
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Lazarus prays as his sores are licked by dogs; Dives feasts on his balcony. Woodcut.
Reference: 23943i