print
- Museum number
- 2006,U.1306
- Title
- Object: Mrs Major Allen's horror at the sight of the ugly maid
- Description
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Inside a room, with Mrs Allen sitting in a chair in the right foreground, looking away from a maid who stands next to her, a baby on Mrs Allen's lap crying, a child running away from the maid towards another woman in the left middle distance who combs another child's hair, laundry hanging from a line above and on a screen in the background.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1819-1875
- Dimensions
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Height: 118 millimetres (image)
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Width: 96 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1941
- Acquisition notes
- BM Palgrave stamp and acquisition date stamped on verso.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2006,U.1306