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Moll Handy. With a Letter of Recommendation to a Service.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Moll Handy. With a Letter of Recommendation to a Service.
Description
English: Satire on housemaids showing a figure composed from implements connected with their work:
  1. A Pattapan (the crown of her hat);
  2. Elm platter (the brim):
  3. Thimbles (her eyes);
  4. Pepperbox (her nose);
  5. Puter [sic] Plate (her face);
  6. Round Towel (her hair);
  7. Hair Sive [sic] (her neck);
  8. Elm bowl (her shoulders);
  9. Two China basons (her breasts);
  10. Two Quart Mugs (her upper arms);
  11. a Bunch of Matches (her right hand);
  12. a Piked Stair Bursh [sic] (her stomacher);
  13. Rowling Pin (Her left forearm);
  14. Dusting Cloths (her cuffs);
  15. Trencher Bruch [sic] (her left hand);
  16. Weapon of Defence (her spit);
  17. Iron Scuer [sic] (her right ulna);
  18. A Payl (the upper part of her torso);
  19. Porrige Pot (her lower torso);
  20. Cabbage Net;
  21. Nutmeg grater (these last two fastened at her waist);
  22. Crack in ye Pot (her genitals);
  23. Bellows (her thighs);
  24. Scrubing Brush (her left foot);
  25. Thrum mop (her right foot);
  26. Pudding Stire (the radius of her right arm);

other domestic utensils lie on the ground, within a rococo frame, a cartouche below containing the title and key; beneath is a "letterof Recommendation to a Service" from "Margery Makefree" addressed "To the Lady Crosspatch" extolling the maid's good qualities and making little of the fact that she "had ye Misfortune by a fall to be Crack'd & is become Pot Belly'd"; "P.S. She will come for small wages".


Hand-coloured etching
Date 1740-1749 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 322 millimetres
Width: 200 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.2.5
Notes For the series of which this appears to be a part, see 1935,0522.2.2.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-2-5
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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