Title: [Welsh Peasants Washing, / Published by William Miller, Albermarle Street, Jany. 1. 1805 / No. 9.]
Description: Welsh women washing. One woman is using a washing bat, wearing a cap, shawl, gown and apron; the other is wearing a skirt and short gown with kerchief and hat. She is also wearing solid wooden clogs which is very unusual for a Welsh woman. The woman in the background is also wearing a short bedgown. There are many versions of this print with different hand-colouring.
Medium: print (Hand coloured)
Size: Paper: 24.9 x 35.5 cms.
Artist: William Henry Pyne (1769-1843)
Engraver: Anon
Printer: Anon
Publisher: [William Miller, Abermarle St. London.] Published with a detailed description of the washing process as no. 9 in Pyne’s 'The Costume of Great Britain' (1805)
Date: 1805, republished 1808. Republished as Pyne's British Costumes, (Westminster Editions, Poole, 1989)
Note: This includes the text ‘The custom of beating linen …’