Moll Handy with a letter of recommendation to a service. [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Moll Handy with a letter of recommendation to a service. [graphic]
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1740] and [printed approximately 1825]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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"Satire on housemaids showing a figure composed from implements connected with their work: 1. A Pattapan (the crown of her hat); 2. Elm platter (the brim): 3. Thimbles (her eyes); 4. Pepperbox (her nose); 5. Puter [sic] Plate (her face); 6. Round Towel (her hair); 7. Hair Sive[sic] (her neck); 8. Elm bowl (her shoulders); 9. Two China basons (her breasts); 10. Two Quart Mugs (her upper arms); 11. a Bunch of Matches (her right hand); 12. a Piked Stair Bursh[sic] (her stomacher); 13. Rowling Pin (Her left forearm); 14. Dusting Cloths (her cuffs); 15. Trencher Bruch[sic] (her left hand); 16. Weapon of Defence (her spit); 17. Iron Scuer[sic] (her right ulna); 18. A Payl (the upper part of her torso); 19. Porrige Pot (her lower torso); 20. Cabbage Net ; 21. Nutmeg grater (these last two fastened at her waist); 22. Crack in ye Pot (her genitals); 23. Bellows (her thighs); 24. Scrubing Brush (her left foot); 25. Thrum mop (her right foot); 26. Pudding Stire (the radius of her right arm); other domestic utensils lie on the ground, within a rococo frame, a cartouche below containing the title and key; beneath is a "letterof Recommendation to a Service" from "Margery Makefree" addressed "To the Lady Crosspatch" extolling the maid's good qualities and making little of the fact that she "had ye Misfortune by a fall to be Crack'd & is become Pot Belly'd"; "P.S. She will come for small wages"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched within image.
Later state with imprint burnished from plate.
Original publication attributed by Stephens to Bickham and dated ca. 1740.
Publication date of this state from watermark.
One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade.
Six lines of a 'letter of recommendation' etched below the cartouche containing key to the implements: To the Lady Crosspatch! Madam, I have lately brought to town a poor wench ...
Cf. No. 2472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Watermark: J Whatman 1825.
Window mounted to 36 x 23 cm. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v.1, p. 106; May 1954;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 33 x 20 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 740.00.00.63+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman 1825 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Arcimboldesque figures
Equipment
Servants
Women domestics - Subjects
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Arcimboldesque figures
Equipment
Servants
Women domestics
England > 1740
England > London > 1740
J Whatman > 1825
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8850343
- Object ID (OID)
- 10700244