188 results filtered with: Household employees
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A health to the gentlemanly profession of servingmen, 1598 / by I.M.; with an introduction by A.V. Judges.
Date: 1931- Books
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An encyclopaedia of domestic economy comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping : as, the construction of domestic edifices ... duties of servants, the general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food ... making bread ... preservation of health ; domestic medicine &c. &c. / by Thomas webster ; assisted by the late Mrs. Parkes.
Webster, Thomas, 1773-1844.Date: 1844- Pictures
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A pretty maid carrying drinking chocolate on a tray. Stipple engraving by A. H. Payne after Liotard, c. 1743.
Liotard, Jean-Etienne, 1702-1789.Date: 1743Reference: 25429i- Pictures
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An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 25290i- Pictures
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: 12053i- Pictures
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A thin, anxious patient consulting a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: June 1823Reference: 11222i- Pictures
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Chubdah or running footman and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28724i- Books
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The book of the home : a practical guide to household management / produced under the general editorship of H.C. Davidson ; assisted by over one hundred specialists ; with coloured plates and numerous illustrations.
Date: 1900-1901- Pictures
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Lazarus prays as his sores are licked by dogs; Dives feasts on his balcony. Engraving.
Reference: 23942i- Pictures
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Two black domestic servants in European dress. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Reference: 28294i- Pictures
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Two rival physicians ride in carriages around high-class London residences in competition for wealthy patients. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 659928i- Pictures
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A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
Browne, Gordon, 1858-1932.Date: 1899Reference: 15205i- Books
A Fifteenth-century courtesy book / edited from the ms. by R.W. Chambers ... and two fifteenth-century Franciscan rules, ed. from the ms. by Walter W. Seton.
Date: 1914- Pictures
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A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
Tal-Zar.Reference: 16923i- Pictures
The childless Sarah presents Hagar, her handmaid, to her husband Abraham. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after C.W.E. Dietricy.
Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst, 1712-1774.Reference: 20803i- Pictures
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A disgruntled gouty man ringing a bell for his servant who is just leaving the room. Etching.
Reference: 10646i- Pictures
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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.
Mieris, Frans van, 1635-1681.Date: 1667-1819Reference: 21730i- Pictures
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A Russian nobleman riding with his servant and smoking a hooka. Coloured lithograph by D. Dighton, c. 1820, after A. Orlowski.
Orlovskiĭ, Aleksandr Osipovich, 1777-1832.Date: 1820Reference: 24883i- Pictures
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A domestics couple of low caste. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28394i- Ephemera
At the Court at St. James's, the ninth day of July, 1702 : Present, the Queens most excellent Majesty, his royal highness Prince George of Denmark, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... : her Majesty is pleased to declare, that she judges the selling of offices and places in her household and family, to be highly dishonourable ... / John Povey.
Povey, John, -1705.Date: 1702- Pictures
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An obese gouty man in trouble, while his attendants cavort. Coloured lithograph by T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 11892i- Pictures
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A torch-bearer and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28517i- Books
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The complete servant; being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants ... With useful receipts and tables / by Samuel and Sarah Adams.
Adams, Samuel, servant.Date: 1825- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop with his wig on fire angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Reference: 12087i- Pictures
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Lazarus's sores are licked by dogs as Dives feasts. Process print, 1931, after J. Lamsveld.
Lamsveld, Jan, 1674-1743.Date: 1931Reference: 23941i