High Life Below Stairs, 1772

Servants amusing themselves; a man dressing a woman's hair while she sits with one foot on a tub, admiring herself in a mirror, watched by a woman standing in front of the fireplace with trimmings on the table in front of her and mimicked by a child on the right while a kitten plays with the ribbons of her hat, with a couple sitting to left, singing and playing the lute, accompanied by a howling dog who sits on a music book marked 'a trio by signr. ' and a woman washing clothes in a large tub in the right foreground; after collet. 1772 etching and engraving. Date: 1772. Dimensions: Height: 257 mm; Width: 364 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum.