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Three Venetian people wearing masks: a grandee, a courtesan, and a zany servant playing the lute. Engraving by J. Goltzius, 1581, after J.J. Boissard.
Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602.Date: [1581]Reference: 3006457i- Pictures
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Two female patients taking advantage of a young inexperienced doctor's desire to please by taking up too much of his time. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1875Reference: 13812i- Books
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A scheme for an act of Parliament for the better regulating servants, and ascertaining their wages, and lessening the future growth of the poor, and vagrants of the kingdom. Humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Parliament of Great Britain. By a magistrate of the north of England.
Tancred, Christopher, 1689-1754.Date: 1724- Pictures
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A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1803?-1806] ;Reference: 662684i- Books
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Reflections on the relative situations of master and servant, historically and politically considered; the irregularities of servants; the employment of foreigners; and the general inconveniences resulting from the want of proper regulations.
Date: 1800- Pictures
World War One: portrait of a kitchen maid by a trolley of pans. Colour chalk drawing, c. 1914.
Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956.Date: 1914Reference: 24600i- 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- Books
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The compleat servant-maid: or, The Young Maidens Tutor. Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting-Woman, house-keeper. Chamber-Maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a suppliment [sic] containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English hams equal to Westphalia. The compleat market-man and market-woman, in buying fowl, fish, flesh, &c. and to know their goodness or badness in every respect, to prevent being cheated. Never before printed.
Date: 1704- Pictures
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A patient forcing a doctor to take some of his own medicine. Coloured engraving, 1794.
Date: 12 May 1794Reference: 10972i- Pictures
A convalescing man happily eating a meal, assisted by his grinning servant. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1804, after J. Sneyd.
Sneyd, John.Reference: 12074i- Pictures
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An obese gouty man with his feet in buckets. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 10735i- Pictures
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A doctor enthusiastically examines a patient's stools. Colour process print after F.L. Gottlob.
Gottlob, Fernand, 1873-1935.Reference: 17196i- Pictures
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A Mrua medicine man or shaman with his assistants, Central Africa. Coloured wood engraving after V.L. Cameron.
Cameron, Verney Lovett, 1844-1894.Date: [1876]Reference: 21303i- Books
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The court 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- Books
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Advice from Farmer Trueman, to his daughter Mary, upon her going to service. In a series of discourses, designed to promote the welfare and true interest of servants: with reflections, of no less importance, to masters and mistresses. By the late Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Pictures
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A wealthy Mohammedan smoking a hooka as two attendants fan him. Engraving by J. Stephenson, 1835, after W. Daniell.
Daniell, William, 1769-1837.Date: 1 October 1835Reference: 25401i- Books
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Serious advice and warning to servants, more especially those of the nobility and gentry. By Thomas Broughton, M.A. rector of Allhallows, Lombard-street, and chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Moray.
Broughton, Thomas, 1712-1777.Date: 1763- Pictures
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A large Chinese man sits on a rock fanning himself as his pipe-bearer stands by. Etching by J. Caldwell, c. 1796, after W. Alexander.
Alexander, William, 1767-1816.Date: 12 April 1796Reference: 25452i- Books
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The servant's friend; or, The Master and Mistresses best gift to their Servants, Apprentices, and Workmen. Being A Set of Excellent maxims; which, if duly practised, will render their Service delightful and profitable, both to themselves and their Employers.
Date: 1793?]- Books
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Jamaica ss. An act to prevent the abuses committed by entertaining, concealing, or carrying off, any of His Majesty's soldiers, any white men or women servants, or slaves belonging to any of the inhabitants of this island without tickets, and for the better regulating servants, and deciding differences between masters and servants.
Jamaica.Date: 1736]- Books
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Serious advice and warning to servants, more especially those of the nobility and gentry. By Thomas Broughton, M. A. Rector of Allhallows, Lombard-Street, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. The Earl of Moray.
Broughton, Thomas, 1712-1777.Date: [1800]- 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- Books
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Serious advice and warning to servants, more especially those of the nobility and gentry. By Thomas Broughton, M.A. rector of Allhallows, Lombard-Street, and chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Moray.
Broughton, Thomas, 1712-1777.Date: 1763- Pictures
A physician examining the urine and taking the pulse of a bare chested female patient, a disdainful fashionably dressed woman approaches the invalid's bed. Etching.
Reference: 21739i- Ephemera
Maid to dress correctly.
Date: [1992]