Sri Lanka: a local cook and another man are straining soup through a pair of breeches into a tureen; their British employers are shocked and the woman faints. Ink drawing, 1859.

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1859
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573483i
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view Sri Lanka: a local cook and another man are straining soup through a pair of breeches into a tureen; their British employers are shocked and the woman faints. Ink drawing, 1859.

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Sri Lanka: a local cook and another man are straining soup through a pair of breeches into a tureen; their British employers are shocked and the woman faints. Ink drawing, 1859. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1859

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1 drawing : ink ; image 11.4 x 16.3 cm

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Ceylon. Penalties of the Popkinses for taking a peep into the cook house just before dinner! ... 1859.

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Wellcome Collection 573483i

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Signed indistinctly with monogram, possibly AB

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