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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.
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- 11849i
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Credit: A servants' employment agency where prospective employees are having their heads phrenologically examined as to their suitabililty. Coloured etching by W. Taylor. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Publication/Creation
[London] (5 Mount Street Walworth) : W. Taylor.
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; border 19 x 22.6 cm
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Lettering
If this science be cultivated, I doubt not but the time will come when on hiring a servant, an examination of the organick manifestations of the mental faculties as developed on the superficies of the pericranium, will supersede the necessity of further enquiry into character. See lecture on phrenology. W Taylor del et sc.
References note
Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Lettering note
Noticeboards on the walls read: "Servants wanted." "Regulations phrenological office for servants. 1. None need apply with bumps from accidental causes. 2. Persons at a distance may send a cast. 3. Office charges at per bump. Broadhead & Co. Agents." Books by Gall and Spurzheim are on the bookshelf.
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 11849i
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- English
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Location Status Access Closed stores