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Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of a butler, in livery and posed in the act of pouring tea, one of a series of portrait studies of ethnic types and occupations taken by Bourne and Shepherd in the early 1870s. A Butler was a title applied to the head-servant of any English or quasi-English household. He was the one who made the market trips, had charge of the domestic stores and was superintendent of the table. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Bourne and Shepherd | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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