History Watercourses thumb|left|"Man and woman washing linen in a brook", from William Henry Pyne's Microcosm (1806). Unusually, this is depicted as a mixed-sex activity.
History Watercourses thumb|left|"Man and woman washing linen in a brook" from William Henry Pyne's Microcosm (1806) Unusually this is depicted as a mixed-sex activity