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A torch-bearer and wife. Gouache drawing.
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A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving, 1749, after J. Hoskins.
Hoskins, John, 1566-1638.Date: Published according to Act of Parliament 1749Reference: 29721i- Pictures
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A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.
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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.Reference: 12054i- Books
Superior servants : the legendary Cantonese amahs of the Far East / Kenneth Gaw.
Gaw, Kenneth, 1939-Date: 1988- Pictures
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Head servant with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
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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.Reference: 12052i- Pictures
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A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.
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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.Reference: 12055i- Pictures
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The birth of Pyrrhus, his mother Deidamia (?) recovers in bed while servants wash and tend him. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1797, after A. Carracci.
Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602.Date: 17 April 1797Reference: 17653i- Pictures
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A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1839]Reference: 29758i- 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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A disgruntled gouty man ringing a bell for his servant who is just leaving the room. Etching.
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A domestics couple of low caste. Gouache drawing.
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A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
Evans, Treyer Meredith, 1889-1958.Date: 1929Reference: 15489i- Pictures
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A man bearing a hooka. Coloured stipple print, c. 1828.
Date: 1828Reference: 25400i- 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: 12051i- Pictures
A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 28 January 1804Reference: 12050i- Books
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Instructions for masters, traders, labourers, &c. Also for servants, apprentices, and youth.
Date: 1718- 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 doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: c. 1815Reference: 10937i- Books
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A view of London and Westminster: or, The town spy. Containing I. Merry characters of the trades people, Half-Pay Officers, and the Guards at St. Margaret's in Westminster; and of the Quality, and the Secret Practices of their Servants at St. James's. II. The Customs, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants in St. Anne's Soho, St. Martin's, and St. Giles's in the Fields: Together with a true Description of Drury-Lane, and the New Votes and Schemes of the Irish-Society of Fortune-Hunters. III. Of a Verdict given against a Barrister of the Temple, for p---ssing against a Soldier's Post at Somerset-House; and of the secret Practices of the Undertakers, with the Physicians Servants. IV. Of the Lawyers at St. Clements, and St. Dunstan's, the kept Mistresses at St. Andrew's, the High and Low Church Mobs at St. Brides, the Blackfryers Printers, and the Ludgate Mercers. V. An Account of Jonathan Wilde's Funeral Procession, and of a surprising Specifick for the Cure of Felonious, Fraudulent, and Corrupt Habits, being an Handkerchief dipped in his Blood, very necessary to be used at this time in Great Britain. VI. A character of a city Church-Warden, the Customs of the Citizens on the Sabbath; the Pride, Intrigues, and Degeneracy of the City Wives, of the Band of Petticoat Pensioners begetting young Merchants and Shopkeepers: Also of the Adventures of Nrtn and Rod -igo, two famous Stallions, &c.
Date: [1725]- Pictures
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A physician examines a patient's stools; he is very pleased; the sarcastic maid asks him if he would like a fork. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison, c. 1890.
Frison, Gustave, 1850-Reference: 16832i- Books
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The co[urt of] good counsell : VVherein is set downe the true rules, how a man should choose a good wife from a bad, and a woman a good husband from a bad. Wherein is also expressed, the great care that parents should haue, for the bestowing of their children in mariage: and likewise how children ought to behaue themselues towardes their parents: and how maisters ought to gouerne their seruants, and how seruants ought to be obedient towards their maisters. Set forth as a patterne, for all people to learne wit by: published by one that hath dearely bought it by experience.
Date: 1607