Maid Collection (page 4)

Entrance of the Old Cheshire Cheese, the famous old pub just off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884

Indignant General to Cook: Well I wouldn t stay in a place like that five minutes. Two servants discuss John Hassalls famous Help! poster advertising vacuum cleaners which they view with suspicion

Joan of Arc - How Joan the Maid, clad in Pages Dress, had audience of the Dauphin Charles - Kay Nielsen artwork. Date: 1922

Dolls of Porphyria Brocard and Sylvie Leconte
Dolls of dancers Mlle. Porphyria or Porphirin Brocard and Mlle. Sylvie Leconte dressed by young Princess Victoria. Color plate after an illustration by Alan Wright from Frances H

Edo street scene, 18th century. A dance teacher and pupil on the left, a nori (glue) seller is beckoned by workers in a small family business

Women of the merchant or artisan class. Waka poetry tutor in a daimyos house. Servants sewing, writing poems, wrapping items and carrying rice

Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)

Guy Fawkes in Effigy, Bartholomews Hospital and Smithfield Market. Children begging with an effigy of Guy Fawkes on 5 November 39, men bringing a patient on a stretcher into St

Woman having her feet treated painfully by a chiropodist in her bedroom. Her husband offering her a glass of wine. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Passengers slipping and falling into the river mud when debarking from a rowboat. Miseries Miscellaneous. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Man in his sick bed surrounded by doting wife, children, and maids. Miseries of Human Life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Young English gentleman leaving his family to go on the Grand Tour. About to get into a horse-drawn carriage to go to Europe

Nurse showing a baby to an old man and woman
Nurse showing a baby to old man and woman seated in front of a fireplace in a parlour, while the young mother and her daughters enter

Young English gentleman gambling at Newmarket racetrack
Young English gentleman placing a bet at a betting post at Newmarket racetrack. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combes The Dance of Life

English gentleman writing a begging letter in a decrepit parlour with lawyer and loanshark looking on. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William

English huntsman dragged in the middle of the hounds by his headstrong horse, 19th century. Martin Muffington unable to control his horse during a fox-hunt. Mr

Facey Romford hands his candle to a footman
English gentleman in formal clothes attending a dinner, 19th century. Facey Romford hands his candle to a footman at the bottom of a staircase. Lucy Somersville in yellow crinoline dress follows him

Fashionable pouf bonnet from the era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle, Costumes and hairstyles of the 18th century

Costumes of the peasants of Zurich, Switzerland, 18th century. Contadini Zurighesi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Maid in stockings and garters embraced by a man. Maidservant assaulted by her upholsterer employer. The vindicated servant girl. Le servante justifiee. After Marguerite de Navarres l Heptameron

Joan of Arc a light of ancient France Illustration by Florence Harrison of Joan of Arc from Tennysons Dream of Fair Women. Date: c.1920

Two children in fancy dress; the little boy is dressed as a chef while a little girl makes a very respectable maid or waitress. Date: 1920s

No maid, no matter! 1943
No maid, no matter! Serious comic strip showing labour-saving of a housewife who does all her own work, 1943. Date: 1943

Advert, Realsilk stockings. 1926

Advert, Cannon Towels -- absorb quickly, wear well, cost less. 1926

Farmhand with his girl
A farmers boy with a rake pursuing a pretty young maid. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: 1901

The Beggar Maid
The King and the Beggar-maid is a 16th-century ballad that tells the story of King Cophetua of Ethiopia and his love for the beggar Penelophon.Artist: Frances Brundage Date: 1914

Girl with nanny, nurse or servant outside a house. circa 1900

The Useful Little Maid by Frances Brundage. 1898

Daisy Jerome, the Medal and the Maid
Daisy Jerome as Elsie Habbicombe in the Medal and the Maid. 1903

Woman in scarf and kimono with maid walking
Japanese woman in scarf and kimono with maid walking in a wintry landscape with bare trees. Woodblock ukiyo-e print by Terasaki Kogyo, frontispiece from a book, Tokyo, circa 1910

The Duchess of Burgundy playing billiards, 18th century
Louis XIV returning from a hunt to find the Duchess of Burgundy playing billiards. From an engraving published by Bonnard, 1704

Two pretty maids helping to dress two old crones
La toilette: Two young women help older women with baby bonnets and false bosoms - while giving knowing looks to the viewer. Women of 19 and 20 are in open war with women of a certain age (30)

The vapours, or the day of memories
Les vapeurs, the day of memories. A woman drinks tea on the sofa while her maid picks up bills strewn over the floor. Kind husband, would you heal the painful nerves of your wife

Skeleton of Death adorning a Countess with a necklace of bones even as she is preoccupied with a new gown from her maid. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of

Chambermaid of Hamburg, Germany, 19th century. She carries a small corbeille or wicker basket and wears a check shawl and white apron

Louise de la Fayette, maid of honour to Anne
Louise Angelique Motier de la Fayette, maid of honour to Anne of Austria, queen to Louis XIII of France, 1618-1665. She wears her hair in ringlets with a string of pearls

Isabelle de Limeuil, maid of honour to Queen
Isabelle de Limeuil, maid of honour and spy for Queen Catherine de Medici of France, 1535-1609. She wears a lace headress, lace collar, and austere black dress decorated with black embroidered bands

Maid of honour to Mary Tudor, 1496-1533
Maid of honour to Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England, queen to King Louis XII of France, 1496-1533. She wears a gable hood chaperon headdress with hanging tail

Agnes Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII
Agnes Sorel, Dame de beaute, mistress of King Charles VII of France, 1409-1450. She wears a tall brocade bonnet with long veil, necklace and velvet dress with fur trim, crakows or poulaines

Anne Budes, Mademoiselle de Guebriant, d. 1647
Anne Budes, Mademoiselle de Guebriant, maid of honour to the queen, niece of Renee du Bec. Handcoloured lithograph after a 1646 portrait in Roger de Gaignieres gallery portfolio X 73 from Le

Old maid, humour
The Old Maid girl. Humorous illustration of old maid with pince-nez and feathered hat. Date: circa 1904

Fair Maids House, Perth, Scotland (a reference to Walter Scotts novel, The Fair Maid of Perth), with six tartans in the background: Cameron, Stewart, Mackenzie, Robertson, Gordon and Fraser

The Jardiniere, Garden Maid, by Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Country Maid by Muriel Dawson. 1940

Advert, Watsons Matchless Cleanser
Advertising showcard, Watsons Matchless Cleanser. circa 1890

Illustration in The Etiquette of To-Day - Leaving Cards
Black and white illustration of a smartly-dressed lady leaving her calling card with a maid, from The Etiquette of To-Day published by Girls Own Paper, circa 1914 edited by Flora Klickmann

Margaret, Maid of Norway, crowned
Margaret, Maid of Norway, (1283-1290) is believed to have been crowned on the stone of Scone which was later incorporated into the Coronation Chair on the instructions of Edward I. Date: 13th century

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