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43 images from works
  • Women are employed performing a variety of domestic tasks. Coloured etching with aquatint by W.H. Pyne after himself, aquatint by J. Hill.
  • Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Civil engineering: building the Victoria Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal. Coloured lithograph by the Kell brothers, 1860.
  • The Workhouse, Poland Street, Soho: the interior. Coloured aquatint by T. Sunderland after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • Months of the year: October. Engraving after P. Stevens.
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
  • Months of the year: January. Engraving after P. Stevens.
  • The London Workhouse: the street and courtyard facades with a pair of medallions. Engraving by T. Dale after R. Schnebbelie, 1819.
  • People doing laundry at the dhobi ghat, during bubonic plague outbreak, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.
  • Civil engineering: one section of the Menai box girder bridge. Lithograph by Day & son, 1849, after M. Foster.
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Trees
Agriculture
London
Child
Winter
Ice
Costume
Outdoor life
History, 19th Century
Farm life