The maid of all-work [graphic].

Description

Title: The maid of all-work [graphic].
Contributor: Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874, artist.
Published / Created: [ca. 1840]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A young woman servant carries a teapot and a key. Text below image: I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself. Merry wives of Windsor
Description: Title from text below image.
Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiv, p. 161.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.5 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1840
Book illustrations
Wood engravings England London 1848
Material: wood engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Servants
Subjects: Servants
England > 1840
England > London > 1848

Access: Public
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