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An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 24878i
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A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.
Date: 1 October 1784Reference: 10974i
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An ill man being visited by a suspicious looking man. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 11864i
Part of: Sam Slicks oddities
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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. waitnig[!]-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid ... Whereunto is added a suppliment containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English hams ... The compleat market-man and market-woman ... / Never before printed.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.Date: 1704
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The birth of John the Baptist. Etching by D. Cunego, 1769, after L. Carracci.
Carracci, Lodovico, 1555-1619.Reference: 23997i
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
Reference: 16529i
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A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 1 February 1809Reference: 11060i
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Constantinople: a boy presents a smoking hookah to Mr Sotiri, Albanian interpreter to the British consul in Bucharest. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: [1843]Reference: 25646i
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Two Chinese opium smokers reclining in a booth watched by a woman with bound feet. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
Reference: 25059i
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A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.
Orde, Thomas, 1746-1807.Date: 23d Feb.y 1774Reference: 29647i
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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: 1836
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A man sits outside a window to smoke and drink, his servant waits behind him. Stipple engraving by Sailliar, mid-18th century, after G. Dou.
Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.Reference: 24840i
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A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
Reference: 11901i
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A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.
Solomon, Abraham, 1823-1862.Reference: 21990i
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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
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A corpulent gentleman with indigestion. Line engraving, c. 18th century.
Reference: 16815i
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A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 21756i
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A mother wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages, with a child, the baby's nurse, and two other servants. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1633.
Date: [1633]Reference: 17545i
Part of: Le mariage à la ville
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A surgeon about to let blood from a woman patient in a richly furnished room. Engraving by A. Bosse.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 22992i
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A sick man in bed, offered a warming pan by his maid and advice by his physician; representing Lord John Russell being given a seat at Stroud by Melbourne after his defeat in South Devon, looking for support to the radical Daniel O'Connell. Lithograph, 1835.
Date: 1 June 1835Reference: 12243i
Part of: Monthly sheet of caricatures : or The looking glass
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The birth of Pyrrhus, his mother Deidamia (?) recovers in bed while servants wash and tend him. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1797, after A. Carracci.
Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602.Date: 17 April 1797Reference: 17653i
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Domestic servants policy / The London Assurance.
London Assurance.Date: 1915
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Servants taking food to their master; illustrating a scene in Murer's play 'Edessa'. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26706i
Part of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
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The complete servant : being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables / by Samuel and Sarah Adams.
Adams, Samuel, active 1825.Date: 1825
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Judith and her maid put the head of Holofernes into a bag. Engraving by A. Smith.
Reference: 20914i

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An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.

A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.

An ill man being visited by a suspicious looking man. Coloured lithograph.

The birth of John the Baptist. Etching by D. Cunego, 1769, after L. Carracci.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.

A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.

Constantinople: a boy presents a smoking hookah to Mr Sotiri, Albanian interpreter to the British consul in Bucharest. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.

Two Chinese opium smokers reclining in a booth watched by a woman with bound feet. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.

A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.

A man sits outside a window to smoke and drink, his servant waits behind him. Stipple engraving by Sailliar, mid-18th century, after G. Dou.

A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.

A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.

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.

A corpulent gentleman with indigestion. Line engraving, c. 18th century.

A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.

A mother wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages, with a child, the baby's nurse, and two other servants. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1633.

A surgeon about to let blood from a woman patient in a richly furnished room. Engraving by A. Bosse.

A sick man in bed, offered a warming pan by his maid and advice by his physician; representing Lord John Russell being given a seat at Stroud by Melbourne after his defeat in South Devon, looking for support to the radical Daniel O'Connell. Lithograph, 1835.

The birth of Pyrrhus, his mother Deidamia (?) recovers in bed while servants wash and tend him. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1797, after A. Carracci.

Domestic servants policy / The London Assurance.

Servants taking food to their master; illustrating a scene in Murer's play 'Edessa'. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

The complete servant : being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables / by Samuel and Sarah Adams.

Judith and her maid put the head of Holofernes into a bag. Engraving by A. Smith.