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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.

Women washing clothes, hanging it on lines, and folding sheets. Coloured etching by W.H. Pyne, 1802.

Men working in lime kilns: some are loading a boat, others are firing the kilns, and donkeys carry away loaded panniers. Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne, 1804.

The costume of Great Britain / Designed, engraved, and written by W.H. Pyne.

Boats: some being loaded, some repaired, others sail loaded with logs and different cargo. Etching by W.H. Pyne after himself, aquatinted by I. Hill.

A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.

Hops being cut down and harvested: six scenes. Sepia aquatint by W.H. Pyne, ca. 1804.

A family with a young child by an open window singing together with the woman playing an instrument. Engraving by W.H. Pyne after Philip Vandyke.

Men are working on the side of a wooden boat; anchors, a buoy and anchoring rope are lying around. Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne after himself.

Gardens: eight scenes of gardeners working. Etching in sepia by W. H. Pyne, 1807, after himself.

Microcosm of London / [Anon].

A barber standing outside his shop confuses a passer-by with an ambiguously worded notice. Etching by R.W. Smart and aquatint by G. Hunt after W.H. Pyne.

Straw from a cart being loaded onto a ship as other men work at baskets and nets on the ground, Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne, 1802.

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William Henry Pyne

Images from the collections

Images by William Henry Pyne

Works from the collections

Gardens: eight scenes of gardeners working. Etching in sepia by W. H. Pyne, 1807, after himself.

Women washing clothes, hanging it on lines, and folding sheets. Coloured etching by W.H. Pyne, 1802.

Microcosm of London / [Anon].

A barber standing outside his shop confuses a passer-by with an ambiguously worded notice. Etching by R.W. Smart and aquatint by G. Hunt after W.H. Pyne.

Straw from a cart being loaded onto a ship as other men work at baskets and nets on the ground, Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne, 1802.

Frequent collaborators

William Henry Pyne

Images from the collections

Images by William Henry Pyne

Works from the collections

Gardens: eight scenes of gardeners working. Etching in sepia by W. H. Pyne, 1807, after himself.

Women washing clothes, hanging it on lines, and folding sheets. Coloured etching by W.H. Pyne, 1802.

Microcosm of London / [Anon].

A barber standing outside his shop confuses a passer-by with an ambiguously worded notice. Etching by R.W. Smart and aquatint by G. Hunt after W.H. Pyne.

Straw from a cart being loaded onto a ship as other men work at baskets and nets on the ground, Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne, 1802.

Frequent collaborators

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