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A doctor and his patient talking at cross purposes. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: June 1823Reference: 10966iPart of: Medical scraps- Pictures
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A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.
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A servants' employment agency where prospective employees are having their heads phrenologically examined as to their suitabililty. Coloured etching by W. Taylor.
Taylor, W, active approximately 1840.Reference: 11849i- Pictures
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John Bancks, expecting a visit by a lady, has tea prepared for her, but she does not turn up, the servant accidentally breaks a bowl, and the kettle placed in front of the fire melts. Etching by I. Basire, 1738.
Bancks, John, 1709-1751.Date: [1738]Reference: 33144i- Books
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Religious courtship: being historical discourses, on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only. As also of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with one another. With an appendix Of the Necessity of taking none but Religious Servants, and a Proposal for the better managing of Servants.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Pictures
A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: 1826Reference: 665676i- Pictures
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Eucharius Roeslin presenting his book on maternity to a pregnant Duchess of Brunswick. Woodcut.
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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, John.Reference: 12052i- Pictures
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A priest taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Engraving by Remi Parr after N. Lancret.
Lancret, Nicolas, 1690-1743.Reference: 25252i- Pictures
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A woman stealing some sugar by emptying it into her pocket is discovered by a manservant of the household. Wood engraving by Swain & Co..
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A man sits by a fireplace lighting his pipe with an ember while a servant girl brings his drink. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. Metsu.
Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 24842iPart of: Vorzüglichsten Gemälde der königlichen Galerie in Dresden.- Pictures
Miss Baily reviving from her attempted suicide while her manservant cudgels the foppish object of her affections. Coloured reproduction of an etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Reference: 11830i- Pictures
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A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving after J. Hoskins.
Hoskins, John, 1566-1638.Reference: 29723i- Pictures
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A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.
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A young man visiting a surgeon-apothecary in his workroom, where the proprietor shows him one of his prize natural history specimens. Etching by J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1848Reference: 16015i- Pictures
Bonnell Thornton lying ill in bed, consulting three physicians and pointing out their inadequacies. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Reference: 11631i- Books
Monsieur Proust / by Céleste Albaret ; as told to Georges Belmont ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.
Albaret, Céleste.Date: 1976- Pictures
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Abraham's servant is impressed by the beautiful Rebecca, who stands in white amid the women around the well. Engraving by P.-I. Drevet after N. Coypel.
Coypel, Noël, the elder, 1628-1707.Date: [between 1720 and 1729?]Reference: 20457i- Pictures
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A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: June 1840Reference: 17671i- Pictures
Three Venetian people wearing masks: a grandee, a courtesan, and a zany servant playing the lute. Engraving by J. Goltzius, 1581, after J.J. Boissard.
Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602.Date: [1581]Reference: 3006457i- Pictures
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Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.
O'Neil, Henry, 1817-1880.Date: 1846Reference: 20812i- Pictures
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A man making fun of a physician because he keeps two wild animals as pets, in a tent in India(?). Lithograph by R.J. Hamerton after himself.
Hamerton, Robert Jacob.Reference: 21823i- Pictures
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A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Reference: 21750i- Pictures
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Two female patients taking advantage of a young inexperienced doctor's desire to please by taking up too much of his time. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1875.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1875Reference: 13812i- Pictures
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. Etching by J. Bretherton, 1773, after H.W. Bunbury after L. Sterne.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.Date: 3 February 1773Reference: 12085i