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Carte-de-visite Portraits of Domestic Workers
Also titled Carte-de-visite-portretten van dienstboden
Simon van Caspel (Abcoude, 1843–1880)
1867 - 1880
- Medium
- cardboard, photographic support
- Classification
- carte-de-visite
- Dimensions
- height 83 mm x width 50 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The woman in the upper left photograph is Lina Hamming, a domestic worker in Amsterdam. Hamming was one of thousands of women who worked in the households of wealthy families. We do not know the names of the other women, but we do know their occupation: domestic workers. They wore the characteristic white aprons and caps. The baskets and the dustpan and brush indicate their duties in the household.
