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  • Child apprentices in textile factory. Apprentice greeting former friend, the workers in rags.
  • Child apprentices in textile factory. The children supplement their scanty rations from the pig trough
  • Alexander the Great being mocked by the apprentices in the studio of Apelles. Etching by Salvator Rosa.
  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • Exterior of an 18th century mill. The apprentices were housed in the garrets. Two sheep before and after the coming of the new agriculture (differences in stock, 1680 & 1808).
  • In a Spitalfields silk weaver's shop two contrasting apprentices, Tom Idle, asleep, and Francis Goodchild, engrossed in his work, sit at their looms overseen by their master. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1749.
  • A pharmacist and his apprentice - the apprentice points out that a customer can't be taking his medicine because he is getting better quickly. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Interior of a pharmacy, the pharmacist and his apprentice at work. Engraving.
  • A man making paper; his apprentice carrying away the finished sheets. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A doctor telling his apprentice how to use language correctly. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1846.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, parts of a loom for apprentice weavers. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • Interior with a surgeon and his apprentice attending to a patient. Oil painting by Jan Josef Horemans, 1722.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a small loom for child apprentice weavers to learn on. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Ambroise Paré, as an apprentice barber-surgeon in a busy shop in Paris. Wood engraving by J. Ansseau after E. Morin.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • A surgeon preparing to let blood by cupping, his apprentice warming the cupping glass. Oil painting attributed to Jan Baptist Lambrechts.
  • An apothecary's apprentice in a shop mixing up a prescription in a pestle and mortar for a customer. Watercolour attributed to C. Stanfield.
  • Textiles: a child-sized loom for apprentice weavers to learn tapestry weaving on, elevation (top), section (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • An apothecary, John Simmonds, and his boy apprentice, William, working in the laboratory of John Bell's pharmacy. Engraving by J.G. Murray, 1842, after W.H. Hunt.
  • An apothecary, John Simmonds, and his boy apprentice, William, working in the laboratory of John Bell's pharmacy. Engraving by J.G. Murray, 1842, after W.H. Hunt.
  • An apothecary, John Simmonds, and his boy apprentice, William, working in the laboratory of John Bell's pharmacy. Engraving by J.G. Murray, 1842, after W.H. Hunt.
  • A physician in traditional costume holding an ointment jar is supervising an apprentice who is mixing a concoction in a pot over a fire, Germany 1500. Heliotype.