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

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

Mrs Jane Ebrell, former housemaid and spider-brusher, aged 87 by John Walters, 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

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