Domestic Tasks

Victorian illustration to download showing two country children at a pond. A girl collects water in a jug, watched by a boy with a fishing rod.

Victorian illustration to download showing a gathering of men and women sitting round a table enjoying a tea party.

Victorian illustration to download showing a sick child in a chair by the fire, wrapped in blankets and propped up with a pillow.

Victorian illustration to download showing women gathering peat. Stacks of peat have been left to dry and the women have barrows on which to load it.

Victorian illustration to download showing a convalescent child, a little girl, propped up in a chair and being given a bowl of food by a maid.

Victorian illustration to download showing an Irish tradition, the baking of a cake on New Year’s Eve. The cake cooks on a griddle in the fireplace of a cottage. Family…

Victorian illustration to download showing a gipsy family on the eve of Derby Day. The mother and children gather round a tent, while the men put up a booth in…

Victorian illustration to download showing washerwomen in Paris washing laundry on a quay by the river Seine.

Victorian illustration to download showing the chef Soyer’s kitchen at the hospital in Scutari in 1855.