Maid Collection

Mikado / Music Sheet
Three little maids from school Date: first produced 1885

Errol Flynn / Robin Hood
ERROL FLYNN Irish-American film actor as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian

W Heath Robinson - Opening the Wine Bottle

Female Type / Maid 1935
Pretty young French maid with a revealing neckline: " Sir has the flu, so I m going to try and raise his morale." Date: 1935

Judi Trott as Maid Marion
The actress Judi Trott (b 1962) as Maid Marion in the popular 1980s television series Robin of Sherwood (1984-86)

French maid taking a break and enjoying a cigarette before her next duty calls.... Date: 1910s

The Kennel Maid
A kennel maid takes two elegant looking greyhounds out for their daily walk

A Meet of the New Forest Buck-Hounds at Fountain Court, Broo
Members of the New Forest Buck-hounds meet at Fountain Court, the hunters and dogs at the ready

Leatherhead, Surrey - Church Street Date: circa 1910s

Advert / Calverts Carboli
CALVERTs CARBOLIC SOAP for floors

Austen / Brandon & Dashwoo
Colonel Brandon visits Marianne Dashwood

Old Maid card - Old Maid. circa 1940s

Joan the Maid - Kay Nielsen. The Most Noble Warrior Saint in the Christian Calendar. Date: 1924

Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash advertisement
Advertisement for Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash showing a maid washing the lustrous locks of her mistress. Date: 1912

The Man Who Broke The Tube by H M Bateman, a man who does not heed the instructions on the glue. He brakes the tube, glues himself to the table, then his wife

Good Egg by William Heath Robinson
Straight from the Hen! The Fresh-Egger, a handsome apparatus for ensuring the new-laidness of eggs for the breakfast-table. A typically convoluted invention from the mind of William Heath Robinson

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - Nursery Rhyme
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row

Maid Washes Ladys Feet
A maid dries her mistresss feet after washing them

Serving Maid / Chocolate
A serving maid carries a cup of chocolate and a glass of water on a tray

Housemaids Skirts
Mistress to maid : - Julie, you shouldn t wear such tight skirts, you are showing far too much leg

Lancelot Mourns Legend
Lancelot mourns for Elaine, the lily-maid of Astolat, otherwise known as The Lady of Shalott, who has died of love for him

Aristocratic French lady bathing and dressing
An aristocratic French lady is helped by her maids to bathe and dress

Sara Crewe / Becky / Maid
Becky the maidservant comforts Sara Crewe when she is orphaned and penniless

Bala Lake Railway line - Locomotive Maid Marion
Steam locomotive Maid Marion hauls a train along the Bala Lake Railway line, which runs along the shore of Bala Lake, Gwynedd, North Wales Date: 1988

The Kitchen Maid, 1651, by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). Dutch painter. The Kitchen Maid, 1651. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Old Maid card - Butler. circa 1940s

The Queen wearing the imperial crown, members of the royal family, and maids of honour, on the balcony at the palace for the fly-past of the RAF following her Coronation on 2nd June 1953. 1953

Advert for Ewarts Califront hot water 1928
" Just turn the tap" Ewarts Califront hot water instantly night or day. Hot water supply to bath, lavatory, basin ect. 1928

Taking a tumble has its compensations
" The New Compensation Act" - " Hooray! I believe I ve broken my arm

Man in Bath
Just when he starts to enjoy a relaxing bath, a mouse enters the room and tries to steal his towel; luckily theres a bell- pull so he can call the maid and have her remove it

Advert Gas Stove Acme
Acme Gas Stoves - " No thank you, Mr Soot!"

Advert / Liebig Beef Card
Liebigs Extract of Beef: the finest meat flavouring stock

Social / Placing Flowers
A dress typical of the close of the 1920s with its low back, flared skirt & uneven hemline dipping to form train- a transitional phase prior to the long skirts of the 30s

Model Maid-Of-All-Work
The model maid of all work is kept busy in the scullery cleaning boots, boiling kettles and pans, and responding to the bells that are constantly rung for her

Rocking Horse Policeman
Little Margaret rides through the streets on her rocking horse, and meets a policeman

German Kitchen
A maid in a simple kitchen with stove, sink, racks, chopping block, tub and saucepans

Draycott, Cotswold village, Edith Hodgkins, milkmaid
Draycott, Cotswold village, Edith Hodgkins (later Mrs Brown), milkmaid. Date: 1916

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1890
Advertisement for Hudsons Soap, showing a laundry woman holding her basket. Date: 1890

The Fair Maid of Perth
A scene from The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott Date: 1905

Joyce Barbour in 1922
Joyce Barbour (1901 - 1977), British actress. Married to the actor Richard Bird. Appearing in " The Babes in the Wood", as Maid Marion. Date: 1922

The maid of the summer surf. Illustration shows a woman wearing a swimsuit, standing on a large fish that is splashing through waves. Date 1911 June 7

Maid Maleen / Rackham
They find the castle in ruins (GRIMM)

Lady in Bath, Maid Adds
A lady is in her bath when her maid adds some of Lewandowskis shampoo and bath extract

Joan of Arc, the maid of Orleans, Jeanne d Arc, pucelle d Orleans, 1410-1431. She wears a suit of armour with yellow gaubisson (pourpoint) beneath

Lady Anne Coke, later Lady Glenconner, one of the Queens maids of honour at the 1953 Coronation

Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orleans
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d Arc) (1412-1431) - on a divine quest to aid France against the English. She bore a white banner bearing the image of God and two Angels

Comic Valentines Postcard - Old Maid about to be blown up
Comic Valentines Postcard - Some seriously racey language punning against an image of an Old Maid about to be blown up. 1908

Comic postcard, Man gives order to maid Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scottish soldier in the British Army, WW1
Comic postcard, Scottish soldier in the British Army. Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, Little girl with knitting and cat - I'm just a goin to be an old maid! Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, House to Let, with maid - I'm to be let alone! Date: early 20th century

Maid in Summerhouse

A new hat can't assuage the pain of separation
What's a new hat to me with you so far away? Date: 1923

Evie Greene who played the title role in Kitty Grey, a hit musical at the Apollo. Date: 1901

Advert for Carron Company - Cooker Range 1911
Advertising the Carron range, with inner glass door. Date: 1911

M was a merry milk-maid, who one morning was sadly dismayed; for a mischievous mouse, that Puss found in the house, was the cause of a slump in her trade. Date: 1908

Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts - the Lyric Revue company
Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts performed by the Lyric Revue company, at the Globe. This performance was classical drama set to music (lyrics by Arthur Macrae with music by Donald Swann). Date: 1952

A maid pouring some wine to a group of young people on a motor boat on Lac Leman in Switzerland's Riviera. Date: 1926

Hot water instantly night and day. Date: 1926

"The English Daumier Looks On Life: English Types by Blampied. Series 5: East End and West End." Two Charwomen (cleaners), one cleaning and the other looking on with crossed arms. Date: 1933

Advert for Carron Company - Cooking Range 1910
New range the Carron with thermometer fitted and an inner door that was of transparent glass so the cook could see the progress of the food. Date: 1910

A Geisha, carrying her music in her obi, and holding her umbrella against a heavy shower, while her maid, carrying her koto case and a lantern, shelters herself by her side. Date: 1910

Bringing in the lunch, Iceland Date: circa 1930

Advert for New Carron Company - Range 1910
The new Carron case iron range, fitted in recessed fireplace. Date: 1910

Connecting link between woman and angel: Miss Elizabeth Ann Linley, afterwards the wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan - famous paintings of The Fair Maid of Bath'

Cartoon -- Asquith half-promises to introduce votes for women - if the country agrees... A parody of Burne-Jones's painting, King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid. Date: 1908

Market Reports Series - Sugar in Good Demand
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series

Joan of Arc (1412-1431) went to Chinon for an audience with the Dauphin of France, the future Charles VII. Charles received Joan of Arc on 6 March 1429

Domestic servants, Victorian period Date: circa late 19th century

Interior of a kitchen. Facsimile from an engraving
Interior of a kitchen. Butcher eviscerating a pig and people preparing the meat. Facsimile from an engraving in Calendarium Romanum, by Jean Staeffler, published in Tubingen, Germany, 1518

Noble lady and maid of honour accompanied by two bourgeois men wearing chaperon. 14th century. Engraving after a miniature in Merveilles du Monde

Hanging Out Washing
A maid with a basketful of washing hanging it out on the line. Artist: George Henry Sydney Cowell (1862-1926) Date: circa 1889

Silhouette - Postcard Design
The Beauty's Parlour'. A pulchritudinous young woman being pampered by her maid, before she recieves her suitor. Date: 1920s

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Admiring herself in front of the mirror in her boudoir, a young lady in an airy summer gown sits whilst her maid helps her try on hats. Date: 1920s

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Seated in her boudoir, a young lady in her petticoat has her nails manicured by the maid. Date: 1920s

Southern Maid at Dungeness Station, RHDR
Southern Maid at Dungeness Station, Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, Kent, England. Date: 1970s

Kate Greenaway
The April Baby's Book of Tunes by Elizabeth von Arnim. Facing page 71. Depicts the three sisters engaged in horseplay

Eva Vliegen, the woman who lived on the smell of flowers
Eva Vliegen, woman who lived on the smell of flowers, 16th century Germany. The miraculous maid of Moers who lived without food for 17 years. From a curious and scarce print. Heva Vliegen Tot Meurs

English Regency naval officer and a family re-union
An English naval officer re-unites a daughter with her father. Admiral Bowsprit brings rescued odalisk Ellen to meet bed-ridden Old Primrose in the poor-house. A maid looks

French costumes of the 12th century. Minister 1, king with crown, sword and sceptre 2, palace guard with spear and shield 3, maid holding a basin 5, noble women 4, 6, and domestic servant 7

Costumes of French peasant women and maid, 16th century. Peasant of Anjou in printed skirt with distaff 1, peasant woman in apron and high collar 2, chambermaid of Saumur 3, 1584

French costumes, end of the 15th century
French costumes, end of 15th century. Equerries in doublets and boots with falcons 1, 2, widow in black 3, marquise in crown 4 with maid 5, baron with sceptre 6, and knight with sword 7

The skeleton of Death pours wine into a glutton's mouth
The skeleton of Death, Freund Hans, pours wine into the mouth of an obese glutton, 18th century. A maid brings a tureen of soup to the dining table while a guest flees. The Glutton. Der Schlemmer

A rich gourmet feasting at home in Georgian England. Misanthropic Sir Simon dining alone. A butler pours wine and maids bring platters of food. The Pleasures of Solitude

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