The interior of a bakehouse realistically depicted. An angry old woman pushes a broom into the arched aperture of the oven. Her alarmed husband stands behind. A thin baker, much amused, standing (right) by a sack, points into the oven. In the doorway stands a distressed young woman. The long shovels for the bread are in a rack; on a shelf is a large hour-glass; mixing-table and scales are on the right. Beneath the design: 'Historians report, the Old Woman wou'd not have thought of looking for her Daughter in the Oven, if she had never been there herself' [one of the sayings in the collection attributed to George Herbert, first published in 'Witt's Recreations', 1640].  12 March 1800
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1800<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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