Terms and conditions of use
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
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
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