2-720-240 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bath time, c1881. 'When I was a farmer, a Farmer's Boy, I used to keep my master's children'. The Farmer's Boy, wearing a bonnet and apron, baths his employer's children. A small girl squirts him with a sponge as he dries her sibling on his lap. A third child sits in a bath of water on the floor. Cured hams, onions and dried herbs hang from the ceiling, and a wooden press can be seen behind the settle. From "The Farmer's Boy" written and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. [Originally published in 1881 as part of Caldecott's 'Picture Books' series]