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A servants' employment agency where prospective employees are having their heads phrenologically examined as to their suitabililty. Coloured etching by W. Taylor.
Taylor, W, active approximately 1840.Reference: 11849i- Pictures
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A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.
Reference: 22256i- Pictures
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A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: June 1840Reference: 17671i- Pictures
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Two Chinese opium smokers reclining in a booth watched by a woman with bound feet. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
Reference: 25059i- 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- 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- Pictures
A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1 July 1802Reference: 10512i- 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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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 woman holding her child while a servant holds a bowl of food to feed her. Engraving by A. Nargeot after himself after J. Verkolje the elder, 1675.
Verkolje, Johannes, 1650-1693.Reference: 17482i- Ephemera
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There is beauty in a hand free from roughness : Snowfire Glycerine Jelly Vanishing.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Books
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : containing general rules for the regulation of female conduct, and the formation of moral habits; together with the elements of science, as geography, astronomy, natural history, botany, &c. ... being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life.
Date: 1837- Pictures
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Eucharius Roeslin presenting his book on maternity to a pregnant Duchess of Brunswick. Woodcut.
Reference: 16917i- Books
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : containing general rules for the regulation of female conduct, and the formation of moral habits; together with the elements of science, as geography, astronomy, natural history, botany, &c. ... being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life.
Date: 1836- Pictures
A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
Reference: 11901i- Ephemera
Maid to dress correctly : brand new, open early.
Date: [1992]- Books
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Pamela; or, virtue rewarded. In a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents. Published, in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has it's foundation in Truth; and at the Same Time that it Agreeably Entertains, by a Variety of Curious and affecting Incidents, is Interply Divested of all those Images, which in too many Pieces Calculated for Amusement only, Tend to Inflame the Minds they should Instruct. To which are Prefixed, Extracts from Several Curious Letters, Written to the Editor on the Subject. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In four volumes.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- 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
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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- Books
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A present for a servant-maid: or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem. Under the following heads. Observance. Avoiding sloth. Sluttishness. Staying on Errands. Telling Family Affairs. Secrets among Fellow-Servants. Entring into their Quarrels. Tale-Bearing. Being an Eye-Servant. Carelessness of Children. Of Fire, Candle, Thieves. New Acquaintance. Fortune-Tellers. Giving saucy Answers. Liquorishness. Apeing the Fashion. Dishonesty. The Market Penny. Delaying to give Change. Giving away Victuals. Bringing in Chair-Women, Wasting Victuals Quarrels with Fellow-Servants. Behaviour to the Sick. Hearing Things against a Master or Mistress. Being too free with Men Servants. Conduct toward Apprentices. Mispending Time. Publick Shews. Vails. Giving Advice too freely. Chastity. Temptations from the Master. If a single Man. If a married Man. If from the Master's Son. If from Gentle men Lodgers. To which are Added, Directions for going to Market, Also. For Dressing any Common Dish, whether Flesh, Fish, or Fowl. With some Rules for Washing, &c. The Whole calculated for making both the Mistress and the Maid happy.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.Date: [1743]- Pictures
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A deaf man being made fun of and shouted at by his friends. Drypoint by A. Casanova y Estorach, 1877.
Casanova y Estorach, Antonio, 1847-1896.Date: 1877Reference: 18034i- Pictures
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A town gentlemen exclaiming to his servant about a extremely long doctor's bill. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1823.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 12 May 1823Reference: 10969i- Pictures
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Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
Reference: 25060i- Pictures
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A shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1865.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1865Reference: 13803i