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A pretty maid carrying drinking chocolate on a tray. Stipple engraving by A. H. Payne after Liotard, c. 1743.
Jean-Étienne LiotardDate: 1743Reference: 25429i
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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, c. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, CharlesDate: 1 November 1804Reference: 25290i
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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, JohnDate: 28 January 1804Reference: 12053i
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A thin, anxious patient consulting a doctor. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: June 1823Reference: 11222i
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Chubdah or running footman and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28724i
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The book of the home : a practical guide to household management / produced under the general editorship of H.C. Davidson ; assisted by over one hundred specialists ; with coloured plates and numerous illustrations.
Date: 1900-1901
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Lazarus prays as his sores are licked by dogs; Dives feasts on his balcony. Engraving.
Reference: 23942i
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Two black domestic servants in European dress. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Reference: 28294i
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Two rival physicians ride in carriages around high-class London residences in competition for wealthy patients. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 659928i
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An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
Reference: 16241i
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A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
Gordon BrowneDate: 1899Reference: 15205i
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A Fifteenth-century courtesy book / edited from the ms. by R.W. Chambers ... and two fifteenth-century Franciscan rules, ed. from the ms. by Walter W. Seton.
Date: 1914
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A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
Tal-Zar.Reference: 16923i
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The childless Sarah presents Hagar, her handmaid, to her husband Abraham. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after C.W.E. Dietricy.
Christian Wilhelm Ernst DietrichReference: 20803i
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A disgruntled gouty man ringing a bell for his servant who is just leaving the room. Etching.
Reference: 10646i
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An ill woman collapsing, a maid rushes to her aid while her physician is examining a urine specimen. Lithograph by N. Strixner, 1819, after F. van Mieris, 1667.
Frans van Mieris the ElderDate: 1667-1819Reference: 21730i
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A Russian nobleman riding with his servant and smoking a hooka. Coloured lithograph by D. Dighton, c. 1820, after A. Orlowski.
Aleksander OrłowskiDate: 1820Reference: 24883i
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A domestics couple of low caste. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28394i
Ephemera
At the Court at St. James's, the ninth day of July, 1702 : Present, the Queens most excellent Majesty, his royal highness Prince George of Denmark, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... : her Majesty is pleased to declare, that she judges the selling of offices and places in her household and family, to be highly dishonourable ... / John Povey.
Povey, John, -1705Date: 1702
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An obese gouty man in trouble, while his attendants cavort. Coloured lithograph by T. Rowlandson.
Thomas RowlandsonReference: 11892i
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A torch-bearer and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28517i
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The complete servant; being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants ... With useful receipts and tables / by Samuel and Sarah Adams.
Adams, Samuel, servantDate: 1825
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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.
Laurence SterneReference: 12087i
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Lazarus's sores are licked by dogs as Dives feasts. Process print, 1931, after J. Lamsveld.
Jan LamsveltDate: 1931Reference: 23941i
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A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
Evans, Treyer Meredith, 1889-1958.Date: 1929Reference: 15489i