18th Century Mops
Additional Resources
This page focuses on depictions of 18th century mops, generally in domestic contexts. (Another page on this site focuses on the subject of brooms from the 18th century.)
The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life: Maids buy a Mop
Trade card of Gatfield & Co., 1759
Woman with a mop raised by Paul Sandby
Mop sellers by Paul Sandby, 1759
Buy a Mop Maids Buy a rag mop, Maids will you buy a Mop, c. 1759
High Life Below Stairs by John Collet, 1763
A City Shower by Edward Penny, 1764
The Unfortunate Beau, 1772
Piety in Pattens, or Timbertoe on Tiptoe, 1773
Old Haman the Northampton-Lamp-Lighter, Drawn from Life, 1774
Betty the Cook Maids Head Drest, 1776
A Girl Buying a Ballad by Henry Walton, 1778
The Liberty of the Subject, 1779
The French Spy, taken Prisoner by English Girls, 1781
A view taken of the Thames from Milbank, towards Chelsea and Battersea, 1783
Mr F–x moving all his Plate & Furniture from St. James’s Place to Wimbledon, 1783
Plumpers for Sr Judas, or, the Chealsea Pensioners Revenge, 1784
The careless maid by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1785
Tit for Tat, 1786
Cottage interior by Jean François Clermont
Mrs Jane Ebrell, former housemaid and spider-brusher, aged 87 by John Walters, 1793
Mrs Maltby by Isaac Robert Cruikshank