Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Home| Collections

Hammers

On this page

  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hammers

16 images from works
  • Carpentry: an assortment of tools. Engraving by N. L. Rousseau after Gallet.
  • Machinery: a lever-operated forge hammer and anvil, in plan and three-quarter view. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Machinery: a pipe-boring drill, and a pile-driving hammer. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • The danger of leaving a hammer on top of a step-ladder. Colour lithograph.
  • Machinery: a double-action steam hammer. Engraving by J. W. Lowry.
  • A hammer and a flower with the words 'SIDA' representing the battle against AIDS; an advertisement by the Gipukoako Hies Kontrako Elkarte Hiritarra/Asociación Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Gipuzkoa. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Machinery: a pile-driving hammer, mounted on existing piles, with two men operating it. Engraving after J. Besson.
  • Machinery: a pile driver, a fire engine, and a steam engine. Engraving by J. W. Lowry after P. Barlow.
  • Machinery: a kind of crank-driven hammer, with a man working at a forge. Engraving after J. Besson.
View all

Works from the collections

22 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Machinery: a pipe-boring drill, and a pile-driving hammer. Engraving by A. Bell.

    | Reference: 45469i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The danger of leaving a hammer on top of a step-ladder. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [date of publication not identified] | Reference: 32616i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Machinery: a steam-hammer and operatives. Wood engraving, c.1870 (?).

    | Reference: 45463i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A hammer and a flower with the words 'SIDA' representing the battle against AIDS; an advertisement by the Gipukoako Hies Kontrako Elkarte Hiritarra/Asociación Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Gipuzkoa. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

    | Date: [1996?] | Reference: 675695i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The Virgin and Saint Mary Magdalene lament over the dead Christ. Line engraving by L. Kilian after H. von Aachen.

    | Hans von Aachen | Reference: 23231i
View all

Related topics

Machinery
Tools
Christianity
Death
Nails and spikes
Steam
Mourning customs
Mothers and sons
Grief
Jesus Christ Death and burial.

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Accessibility

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence