This is trusting a servant to do any thing! She has been and left the warming-pan in my lodger's bed, the good for nothing hussey. Hollo! What the duce are you going at with my leg? D'ye hear? Are you going to pull me out of bed? [graphic]

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Lewis Walpole Library > This is trusting a servant to do any thing! She has been and left the warming-pan in my lodger's bed, the good for nothing hussey. Hollo! What the duce are you going at with my leg? D'ye hear? Are you going to pull me out of bed? [graphic]

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Title: This is trusting a servant to do any thing! She has been and left the warming-pan in my lodger's bed, the good for nothing hussey. Hollo! What the duce are you going at with my leg? D'ye hear? Are you going to pull me out of bed? [graphic]
Contributor: Kohler, W.
Soffe, W., active 1828-1843, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1838 and 1840?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
Abstract: A maid pulls at the peg leg of a man in bed, mistaking it for the handle of a warming pan. A single sock and shoe lay on the floor beside the bed; a candle sits on the bureau in the background, in front of a small mirror
Description: Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark St." on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue.
Mounted on board to 35 x 29 cm.
Provenance: Brian Maidment; July 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34 x 25 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Maidment Un58 no. 38 Box 6

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Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1838
Lithographs England London 1838
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Women domestics
Beds
Peg legs
Pulling
Candles
Mirrors
Subjects: Women domestics
Beds
Peg legs
Pulling
Candles
Mirrors
England > 1838
England > London > 1838
Maidment, Brian > Donor

This is trusting a servant to do any thing! She has been and left the warming-pan in my lodger's bed, the good for nothing hussey. Hollo! What the duce are you going at with my leg? D'ye hear? Are you going to pull me out of bed? [graphic]

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