18th Century Mops

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Last updated: Dec 01, 2025

This page focuses on depictions of 18th century mops, generally in domestic contexts. (Another page on this site focuses on the subject of brooms from the 18th century.)

• The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life: Maids buy a Mop
• Trade card of Gatfield & Co., 1759
• Woman with a mop raised by Paul Sandby
• Mop sellers by Paul Sandby, 1759
• Buy a Mop Maids Buy a rag mop, Maids will you buy a Mop, c. 1759
• High Life Below Stairs by John Collet, 1763
• A City Shower by Edward Penny, 1764
• The Unfortunate Beau, 1772
• Piety in Pattens, or Timbertoe on Tiptoe, 1773
• Old Haman the Northampton-Lamp-Lighter, Drawn from Life, 1774
• Betty the Cook Maids Head Drest, 1776
• A Girl Buying a Ballad by Henry Walton, 1778
• The Liberty of the Subject, 1779
• The French Spy, taken Prisoner by English Girls, 1781
• A view taken of the Thames from Milbank, towards Chelsea and Battersea, 1783
• Mr F–x moving all his Plate & Furniture from St. James’s Place to Wimbledon, 1783
• Plumpers for S^r Judas, or, the Chealsea Pensioners Revenge, 1784
• The careless maid by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1785
• Tit for Tat, 1786
• Cottage interior by Jean François Clermont
• Mrs Jane Ebrell, former housemaid and spider-brusher, aged 87 by John Walters, 1793
• Mrs Maltby by Isaac Robert Cruikshank