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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.

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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Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843

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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.