Parlourmaid and Under-Parlourmaid Ready to Serve Dinner
In Brandt's first book, The English at Home (1936), he juxtaposed the privileged and working classes, frequently using his friends and family as subjects. Pratt, the stern parlourmaid in the country house of one of the photographer's wealthy uncles, was a particular favorite of Brandt's, perhaps because she so thoroughly inhabited her role.
Artwork Details
- Title: Parlourmaid and Under-Parlourmaid Ready to Serve Dinner
- Artist: Bill Brandt (British (born Germany), Hamburg 1904–1983 London)
- Date: ca. 1934
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 22.7 x 19.0 cm (8 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.1100.4
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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