The interior of a well-furnished room. The dentist stands in front of a middle-aged woman seated in a chair (right); he holds her forehead with one hand, with the other he applies a small instrument to her mouth. She grasps a shawl in her left hand. A...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Black people, Birdcages, Cats, City and town life, Drawing rooms, Servants, and Women domestics
A fashionably dressed young woman stands before the mirror on her dressing table, a box of pins in her hand. Standing behind her on her huge bustle or "cork rump", her bespectacled hairdresser arranges her mountainous headdress, consisting of rows of ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd the act directs June 9, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Skirts, Dressing tables, Interiors, Women domestics, and Clothing & dress
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.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St.
Subject (Topic):
Women domestics, Beds, Peg legs, Pulling, Candles, and Mirrors
"A kitchen scene. A handsome young cook in her mistress's hat and gown, worn over her own cap and petticoat, with her breast bared, postures in the kitchen before a hanging mirror, holding out a fan. Three amused girls (a woman with two young girls) w...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Brooms & brushes, Cats, Kitchens, Interiors, Mirrors, Role reversal, Tableware, and Women domestics
"A kitchen scene. A handsome young cook in her mistress's hat and gown, worn over her own cap and petticoat, with her breast bared, postures in the kitchen before a hanging mirror, holding out a fan. Three amused girls (a woman with two young girls) w...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Brooms & brushes, Cats, Kitchens, Interiors, Mirrors, Role reversal, Tableware, and Women domestics
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 May 1797]
Call Number:
797.05.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two images on one plate. The top image represents a master glowering at his terrified footman; the bottom image shows a mistress scowling at a frightened maid
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 26, 1797, by G.M. Woodward, Berners Street
A kitchen scene with three female domestics. One is bending over offering an excited dog some sustenance from a tilted bucket while a second looks on with a slight smile. A third servant sits laboring in front of the fireplace
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Kitchens, Women domestics, Fireplaces, Animal feeding, and Pets
"A maid in simple dress sitting in profile to right on a rock in a hilly landscape, holding the handle of a bucket on the ground beside her, a figure on horseback on a path about to crest the hill in the distance at right; circular design after Henry ...
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 91. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene from Tristram Shandy in which Susannah stands holdings her nose with her right hand while in her left she holds a candle over the cradle where the swaddled infant Tristram lies with a plaster on his nose. She addressed the doctor with obvious ...
Description:
Title from later state.
Publisher:
J. Bretherton
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Illustrations, Cradles, Longcase clocks, Physicians, Quarreling, Screens, Servants, and Women domestics
A young mopping maid clumsily shoves an older gentleman whom reels away flailing his cane in the air. A second onlooker maid laughs at the awkward situation
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Women domestics, Servants, Accidents, Clumsiness, and Mops & mopsticks
