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Laundresses

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  • Two women accompanied by a child are washing clothes in a large vessel. Engraving by C. Le Vasseur after G. Gambarini.
  • Women washing clothes at the wash-house at Torre del Greco, near Naples. Coloured etching by J. Godby, 1806, after P. van Lerberghi.
  • A laundry maid leaning out of a sash window to wring out a wet garment. Rotogravure by Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Co. Ltd. after P. Dawe after H. Morland.
  • A woman is washing clothes in a tub in a farmyard while a herder drives sheep, cattle and a goat out to pasture. Engraving by L. Halbou after a painting attributed to D. Teniers.
  • Carcassonne, France: the walled city and bridge over the Aude river; women wash laundry on the river bank and a man shovels grit into a narrow boat. Process print by Bauer, Marchet & C.ie after a photograph.
  • A laundry-maid is interrogated by two officials and an ecclesiastic about the death of Count Cenci. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • A laundry maid leaning out of a sash window to wring out a wet garment. Rotogravure by Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Co. Ltd. after P. Dawe after H. Morland.
  • A group of women are washing clothes in the river. Lithograph.
  • James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger, as a washerwoman scrubbing clothes in a tub filled with hot soapy water. Etching by William Heath, 1829.
  • Two woman of Bordeaux washing clothes in a river; one is holding the sheet while the other beats it with a wooden paddle. Lithograph by Légé after G. de Galard.
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Works from the collections

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    Old houses on the banks of a water inlet: centre, a laundry, with two washerwomen washing clothes in the water; right, two men standing in a boat by a water gate. Etching by F.E. Weirotter.

    Franz Edmund Weirotter | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 2917499i
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    A woman is washing clothes on a wash board at a tub. Coloured lithograph.

    | Date: 1828 | Reference: 30587i
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    Saint-Malo, Brittany: women washing clothes in barrels, carrying washing in baskets and hanging items from windows. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.

    Léon Augustin Lhermitte | Date: 1881 | Reference: 29535i
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    Nice, France: washerwomen washing clothes in the river (Paillon?) by a large bridge. Photograph by G.J., ca. 1880.

    J., G. (Photographer) | Date: 1880-1889 | Reference: 2822104i
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    Two woman of Bordeaux washing clothes in a river; one is holding the sheet while the other beats it with a wooden paddle. Lithograph by Légé after G. de Galard.

    Gustave de Galard | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 30592i
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