18th Century Brooms
Recueil des modes de la cour de France: la Crieuse de balets
Brooms, c. 1690-1710
Het Menselyk Bedryf: The Broom Maker by Jan & Caspar Luyken, 1694
The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life: Old Shooes for Some Broomes
Broom with a twisted handle, c. 1700
Woman sweeping the floor of a house by Jan Luyken, 1711
De rarekiek by Willem van Mieris, 1718
Maid from Koblenz, broom in hand by Bernard Picart, 1728
Woman sweeping a tiled floor and a broom-seller by Edme Bouchardon, c. 1730s
Street vendor with brooms (Cries of Paris: Balais Balais), 1736
The Distrest Poet by William Hogarth, 1740
The Scissors-Grinder by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1741
The Spinner by Willem van Mieris
A man sweeping with a broom by Paul Sandby
Four studies of a man with a broom by Paul Sandby
A Nurſe for the Heſſ—ns, 1756
Any brooms to sweep your Rooms, c. 1759
The Press Gang by John Collet
The Kitchen by Willem Joseph Laquy, c. 1760-1771
Saddle Accessories and Stable Equipment, Continued s.n. Manège et équitation in Diderot’s Encyclopedie, 1762
Beszem, Beszem, Kuperi Beszem, Cries of Danzig, c. 1765
A maid pouring soup by Pehr Hilleström, 1770s
Woman with a mortar and pestle by Pehr Hilleström
Timothy Lustring the Spouter waked out of his Reverie, 1772
Le lever de Fanchon by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, 1773
Maid with a broom by Pehr Hilleström, 1774
Cobler’s Hall, 1775
The chambermaid, c. 1775-1800
Betty the Cook Maids Head Drest, 1776
The Unfortunate Discovery, 1777
The public writer, c. 1780
View of the Wijde Kapelsteeg by H.P. Schouten, 1781
The Housemaid by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1782-1786
Mr F–x moving all his Plate & Furniture from St. James’s Place to Wimbledon, 1783
The Country Tooth-Drawer, 1784
Mars and Venus, or Sir Cecil chastised, 1784
The Westminster Deserter drum’d out of the Regiment, 1784
The Patient’s Paroxysm; or, the Doctor Outwitted, 1784
Rustic Courtship, 1785
Recruit Deserted, 1790s-1800s
West-Indisch Huis by H.P. Schouten, 1792
Mrs Jane Ebrell, former housemaid and spider-brusher, aged 87 by John Walters, 1793
Binnengasthuis met toegang tot de Bajert, 1793
The Black Stool by David Allan, 1795
Diligence and Dissipation: The Modest Girl and the Wanton Fellow Servants in a Gentleman’s House, 1796
Bijbelhofje by H.P. Schouten, 1797
A cottager making lace, 1798
Abel Wood, 1799
Morning by Francis Wheatley, 1799
The drunkard by Thomas Rowlandson
A large splint broom, made in America in the late 18th or early 19th century