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The Lazy Housemaids, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'

Crane, Walter, 1900, Publisher's print
The Lazy Housemaids, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
The Lazy Housemaids, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
The Lazy Housemaids, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
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Item no
40050
Title
The Lazy Housemaids, illustrated page from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Description
In the top of the picture, beside a window and a rising sun, two maids are waking up, stretching and yawning. A robed women, climbing the steps towards them, draws their curtain and holds up an hourglass for them to see. Two circles show a cockerel, in one it is alive, in one it is dead. In the centre of the picture is the rhyme:
"The Lazy Housemaids

Two maids killed the rooster whose warning
Awoke them too soon every morning.
But small were their gains,
For their mistress took pains
To rouse them herself without warning.

Laziness is its own punishment."
Artist / maker
Date
1900
Size
17.8 x 18.8 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
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Price
Digital FileElectronic file 72 dpi JPEG
£5.80(inc. VAT 20%)
Digital FileElectronic File 300 dpi TIFF
£29.40(inc. VAT 20%)
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