Thomas Major

British etcher, copperplate and seal engraver and illustrator

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Field of work
Book Illustrations
Publishing
Bookselling

Images from the collections

Images by Thomas Major

14 images from works
  • Fishermen going off to fish by the light of the moon. Engraving by T. Major, 1753, after A. van der Neer.
  • A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A medicine vendor tying up his pet monkey. Etching by T. Major after D. Teniers II.
  • The draught of fishes. Etching by T. Major after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Five Flemish men, old and young alike, smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by T. Jorma (T. Major), 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A man sits at a barrel-table to light his pipe, others in the room smoke and drink. Engraving by T. Major, 1746, after D. Teniers.
  • Dissection of the pregnant female abdomen, showing the skin peeled away to reveal the swollen uterus, the diaphragm and the intestines, side view. Copperplate engraving by T. Major after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • A swineherd tends his flock by the river and a goatherd looks after his flock on the hillside. Engraving by T. Major after P. Potter.

Works from the collections

Frequent collaborators

David Teniers the Younger
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
Robert Wood
Giovanni Battista Borra

Related topics

Herders
Strigiformes
Alchemy
Alchemists
Furnaces
Chemistry - History
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Taverns (Inns)
Alcohol Drinking
Costume