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 &amp; is become Pot Belly'd"; "P.S. She will come for small wages".
<br>Hand-coloured etching
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