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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.

Brickmakers: one man working at a table while others prepare a kiln and dig the earth. Lithograph by Denis Dighton, 1821.

Building materials marching out of London and forming new built-up areas in the countryside. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.

An Indian bricklayer and wife. Gouache drawing.

A brickmaker making bricks and roofing tiles: others carry them away in wheelbarrows to be fired in a kiln. Woodcut by J. Amman.

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Building materials marching out of London and forming new built-up areas in the countryside. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.

Brickmakers: one man working at a table while others prepare a kiln and dig the earth. Lithograph by Denis Dighton, 1821.

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.

A brickmaker making bricks and roofing tiles: others carry them away in wheelbarrows to be fired in a kiln. Woodcut by J. Amman.

An Indian bricklayer and wife. Gouache drawing.