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George Cruikshank
Scarcity of domestic servants or Every family their own cooks (1853)
etching
10.0 × 16.0 cm (image and sheet, trimmed within platemark)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Archibald, 1930
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Scarcity of domestic servants or Every family their own cooks
(1853)
plate 7 from The Comic Almanack for 1853, published by David Bogue, London
Medium
etching
Measurements
10.0 × 16.0 cm (image and sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Archibald, 1930
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Cohn 184; Reid 2560
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Designed & Etched by George Cruikshank
printed in ink u.l.-u.r.: Scarcity of Domestic Servants _ or Every Family their own Cooks !!!—
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: Being Verifications of our Prognostications in 1851 _ upon the subject of Over Female Emigration!
Accession Number
4294.27-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Labour, Industry and Machinery
Subjects (specific)
cartoons (humorous images) cooking domestic cat (species) domesticity domestics (servants) families (kinship groups) kitchens
Movements
Victorian