The Milkmaid (Vermeer) van Leyden's engraving "The Milkmaid" (1510) and Jacques de Gheyn II's engraving "The Archer and the Milkmaid" (about 1610). Vermeer's painting is even more understated, although the use of symbols remains: one of the Delft tiles at the foot of the wall behind the maid, near the foot warmer, depicts Cupid – which can imply arousal of a woman or simply that while she is working she is daydreaming about a man. Other amorous symbols in the painting include a wide-mouthed jug, often used as a symbol of the female anatomy. The foot warmer was often used by artists as
The Brown Jug is on sale on news stands, hotel stands and railroad stations in Providence, New York and Boston."" The cover of the "Jug"s first issue showed a girl in party dress and hat emerging from a bandbox holding a small bear; it proclaimed this the “Coming Out Number,” and the masthead identified it as “Vintage of 1920 ... Jugful Number 1.” Since its founding, the "Brown Jug" has been dissolved and resurrected a number of times by various Brown students and organizations. Humorist S. J. Perelman was editor and cartoonist for the Jug in 1924 and 1925. It first ceased publication