188 results filtered with: Household employees
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge.
Date: [1824]- Pictures
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An episode in Tristram Shandy: Dr. Slop, with his wig on fire, angrily gesticulating to Susannah who holds her nose near the wounded baby Tristram Shandy. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Reference: 22033i- Pictures
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Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Lithograph by C. Nanteuil after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 22108i- Pictures
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A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26944i- Pictures
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Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.Reference: 20970i- Pictures
A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 15 February 1796Reference: 17465i- 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- 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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Religious courtship: being historical discourses, on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only. As also of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with one another. With an appendix of the necessity of taking none but religious servants, and a proposal for the better managing of servants.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- 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.Reference: 12054i- Books
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Religious courtship: being historical discourses, on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only. As also of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with one another. With an appendix Of the Necessity of taking none but Religious Servants, and a Proposal for the better managing of Servants.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: M,DCC,XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge.
Date: [1825?]- Books
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Household work; or, The duties of female servants : practically and economically illustrated, through the respective grades of maid-of-all-work, house and parlour-maid, and laundry-maid: with many valuable recipes for facilitating labour in every department; prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley.
Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]- Pictures
A horrified gouty man discovering grass is growing out of his skin, as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1835.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 5 November 1835Reference: 11859iPart of: Dawson's magic- Pictures
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The Virgin Mary as an infant among maids. Engraving.
Reference: 20985i- Pictures
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Forty five different scenes telling the tale of a man with toothache, his various attempts at trying to cure himself and the final recourse to the dentist. Wood engraving by G. Cruikshank after H. Mayhew.
Mayhew, Horace, 1816-1872.Reference: 16690i- 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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Head servant with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28713i- Pictures
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A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
Reference: 21472i- Pictures
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A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28482i- Pictures
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The adoration of Christ, surrounded by maids, in a city. Engraving.
Reference: 21921i- Books
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The duties of servants : a practical guide to the routine of domestic service / by the author of "Manners and rules of good society".
Date: [1890?]- Pictures
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Judith with Holofernes' head; her maid behind her. Line engraving after C. Allori.
Allori, Cristofano, 1577-1621.Reference: 20913i- Books
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The servants practical guide : a handbook of duties and rules / By the author of "Manners and tone of good society".
Date: [1880]- Pictures
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A physician arguing with his wealthy patient who is bed, a visitor appears at the door. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
Dawe, Henry Edward, 1790-1848.Date: [between 1840 and 1849]Reference: 21800iPart of: Life of a nobleman