18th Century Milkmaids

Last updated: Jun 12, 2025

See pages elsewhere on this site focusing on butter churns and shoulder yokes.

• Marchand d'Antiquité et laitière, 1680
• Milkmaid carrying her pot of milk by Sébastien Leclerc, c. 1685-1698
• The Cryes of London: The Merry Milk Maid by Marcellus Laroon, 1688
• Laitiere Holandoise, c. 1695-1730
• A Dutch Delft milkmaid and cow, early 18th century
• The Twelve Months: September, 1701
• Laitière des environs de Paris, 1706
• Rural Life: a dairymaid carries a basket full of pats of butter
• The Milkmaid by Gabriel-Germain de Saint-Aubin, 1716
• South view of St John’s gate in Clerkenwell including a milkmaid carrying two buckets suspended from a yoke, 1720
• Lady Catherine Hyde, Duchess of Queensberry, as a Milkmaid by Charles Jervas, c. 1725-1730
• Stewards Hay, near Groby, Leicestershire, drawn by Peter Tillemans, 1726
• Young milkmaid drawn by Edme Bouchardon, c. 1730s
• A View of the London Spaw, 1731
• The Distressed Poet by William Hogarth, 1733-1735
• The Milkmaid by François Boucher, c. 1735-1736
• Four Times of the Day: Evening by William Hogarth, 1736
• A boxing match in London by Andreas Möller, 1737
• The Milk-Maid on May-Day by J.S. Müller, 1740
• The Enraged Musician by William Hogarth, 1741
• Cows and milkmaid drawn by Gravelot, 1743?
• A milkmaid and her swain on a woodland path by Paul Sandby, c. 1740-1765
• The March fo the Guards to Finchley by William Hogarth, 1749-1750
• A Milkmaid Climbing a Stile by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1750
• Landscape with Milkmaid by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1754-1756
• Charles Fort, near Kinsale, Co Cork, drawn by Charles Tarrant, 1756
• London Cries: A Milkmaid by Paul Sandby, 1759
• Milk above or Milk below attributed to Paul Sandby, c. 1759
• La Trayeuse de Vaches by Noël le Mire, 1759
• Cattle in a Meadow by Jan van Gool
• A country footpath, with a distant view of Windsor Castle, c. 1760-1770
• Landscape with a milkmaid rinsing a bucket in a brook, 1770
• The Milkmaid by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, c. 1772-1773
• Pastoral scene with a milkmaid milking a cow, c. 1772-1796
• Cris de Paris: La marchande de crème, c. 1774-1775
• Cattle Piece by Johannes Janson, 1779
• A woman milking cows with a herdsman before a ruin drawn by Jacob Cats, 1781
• A milkmaid in a contemplating pose in a field behind a cow, an illustration from The Easter Gift (1782)
• La Laittiere
• Colin and Chloe, 1783
• May-Day in London, 1784
• A milkmaid with a pail on her head, an illustration from An Introduction to Reading and Spelling (1786)
• View of Bloomsbury Square, 1787
• View of Wellins Farm in Marylebone with a milkmaid carrying buckets suspended on a yoke in the left foreground, 1789
• Milkmaids and Gentlemen in St. James’s Park by Thomas Rowlandson
• Drawing of an old gentleman talking to a milkmaid by a stream by Thomas Rowlandson
• St. James’s Park, 1790
• The Milkmaid and the Snail, c. 1790
• La laitiere
• Rustic Courtship and Thomas and Sally, 1791
• Milkmaid carrying two buckets on a shoulder yoke, tailpiece illustration from The Looking Glass for the Mind; or, Intellectual Mirror (1792)
• Ladies ears bored, gratis, 1793
• Cries of London: Milk below Maids, 1793
• The Cow House, 1793
• The Milkmaid by Abraham Delfos, 1793
• The Taylor Done Over! 1794
• The Tithe Barn at Abbotsbury by Thomas Girtin, c. 1795
• Collin and Phillis
• Winter Evening, 1797
• Characters in the Streets of London by Benjamin West, 1799
• The enraged politician or the Sunday reformer or a noble belman crying stinking fish, 1799
• Going out milking and the return from milking, 1800
• La Laitière, c. 1800
• Rustic Courtship drawn by William Hamilton
• Milkmaids in St. James’s Park, Westminster Abbey Beyond by Benjamin West, c. 1801
• Milk Below! in The New Cries of London, 1803
• Milkmaid and Dog in a Landscape
• Parsonage House at Henstead by Benjamin West
• Vue du Glacier l'Engstle / et d’une partie de la Vallée d’Adelboden dans le Canton de Berne
• Cris de Paris: Laitiere, 1815
• Landscape with herdsmen, cattle, and a milkmaid by Balthazar Paul Ommeganck
• Milking Time
• Llewenny Hall, Denbighshire, drawn by Thomas Stothard
• Landscape with a woman milking a cow near a cottage drawby Adrianus de Visser
• A milk maid sitting in a park, arranging cups of milk for sale on a plank over her pail at left
• Portrait of a milkmaid attributed to Francis Wheatley