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A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby for the first month after the birth. Wood engraving by Orrin Smith, ca. 1840, after Kenny Meadows.
Lettering: The monthly nurse. "From the very moment the mistress of the house is brought to bed, every female in it, from my lady's gentlewoman down to the cinder-wench, becomes an inch taller for it." Tristram Shandy. K.M.
Creator
- Joseph Kenny Meadows
- Kenny Meadows
Subject
- COSTUME - HISTORY - 19TH CENTU
- WOOD ENGRAVINGS
- PORTRAIT PRINTS
Type of item
- Drawing
- Caricatures
- Drawing
Creator
- Joseph Kenny Meadows
- Kenny Meadows
Subject
- COSTUME - HISTORY - 19TH CENTU
- WOOD ENGRAVINGS
- PORTRAIT PRINTS
Type of item
- Drawing
- Caricatures
- Drawing
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Wellcome Collection
Creation date
- 1840
- 1840
Source
- V0011057
Identifier
- V0011057
- b1159859
- ICV No 11319
- v2cedm7u
Year
- 1840
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:42:58.800Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:42:58.800Z