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Scenes from nature (The laundress)
Scenes from nature (The laundress)
TitleScenes from nature (The laundress)
AuthorUnknown
PublisherYorkshire J.S. Publishing & Stationery Company, Ltd.
Publisher LocationEngland--Otley
Publication Dateca. 1840
IllustratorUnknown
Image Production ProcessRelief prints--woodcuts
NotesIllustrated with eight woodcuts, four of which are hand colored.
No. 8 in a set of 16 chapbooks by J.S. Publishing, Otley, Yorkshire. No date, but the British Library dates the series to 1850.
Few women are portrayed in books of trades and here we see "The Laundress" who is not doing her job well.
Subjects (LCSH)Country life -- England -- Juvenile poetry; Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Domestic animals -- Juvenile poetry; Occupations -- Juvenile poetry; Work -- Juvenile poetry
CategoryChapbooks
LanguageEnglish
Digital CollectionChildren's Historical Literature Collection
Digital ID NumberCHL1329
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionChildren's Historical Literature Collection PR1195.C67 S34 1840
Object TypeChapbook
Physical Description[8] unnumbered p.: illustrated; 17 x 11 cm
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from original book at 400-600 dpi in TIFF format using a ScanMaker 6800, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008.
Exhibit ChecklistExhibit checklist 14.13
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