Title

'A City Shower', c1764. Artist: Edward Penny

Caption

'A City Shower', c1764. A young maid standing on the pavement outside the doorway of a wealthy house vigorously shakes her mop, spraying a male passer-by who steps back in dismay.
Museum of London

Date

1764

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A82_386

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,4Mb) / 12,7in x 15,3in / 3800 x 4598 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior building buildings female women woman people girl girls job house fashion doorway occupation clothes color colour surprise cleaning feeling pavement sidewalk dress door entrance doorstep century worry profession worried dismay surprised fashionable wig lady concept outside gutter waistcoat servant apron mop maid breeches 18th century dandy Eighteenth Century Museum of London britches fop frock coat oil Edward Penny E Penny Penny Edward oil