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  • Saint-Malo, Brittany: women washing clothes in barrels, carrying washing in baskets and hanging items from windows. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.
  • A fisherman is standing on a rock with his nets and baskets strapped to his back. Mezzotint by J. Jones after G. Carter.
  • A woman carrying a child in Lazio is buying salad greens from a vendor carrying produce in large baskets. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1815.
  • Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • A boy lays shallow baskets of tea leaves on a low table, for initial withering (?), or drying. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Fish, eels, shellfish and crustaceans (22 different varieties), lying dead on a table and in baskets. Etching, by G. Van der Gucht after P.A. Rysbrack, 1750/1770.
  • 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.
  • A statue of Priapus, the god of natural reproduction with baskets and swags of fruit as symbols of male fertility and the earth's fecundity. Engraving by J. Lamsvelt.
  • One man makes dough as another stokes the fire for the oven, there is bread on the tables and trays and baskets are piled in stacks. Coloured etching.
  • Women are making the nets, baskets and balloons for hot-air balloons, they are being inspected by men in top hats. Wood engraving by WBM after W.I.P.S. (?).
  • Gypsies living on the hillside outside a tavern; two men are on horseback, while others are carrying baskets of food, cooking and tending to children. Engraving by J. Moyreau after P. Wouwermans.
  • A crowd of poorly-dressed people are reaching out their hands to an angel who is carrying a container with food in it and others with baskets of bread and canisters. Etching.
  • Hudibras and his squire Ralpho depart on a pair of horses with two rustic peasants watching; one carries a rake and accidentally disturbs a table spilling the contents of two baskets. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A woman on the beach is offering a dish to a man with an eye glass, two women are being chased by a crowd and women are carrying baskets on their heads as men dig in the field and one pushes a wheelbarrow with a basket on it. Etching.
  • Dianella tasmanica Hook.f. Phormiaceae Tasman flax lily. Distribution: Australia. A pretty plant, but also a source of fine fibre. The leaves are used for making baskets and the berries as a dye source. No medicinal use found, but the fruit is an irritant
  • Blind Basket-makers
  • Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.
  • Woman carrying a basket of maize
  • Hindu basket maker and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Philip Winterflood, walking with stick and basket. Etching.
  • Basket willow (Salix viminalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1903.
  • A naked woman carrying a basket in her left hand kneels on her left knee, takes a cloth out of the basket, rises and moves the basket to her right hand as she walks away. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Chinese baby carriage: a market basket slung on a pole
  • A basket of flowers, peonies, chrysanthemums and orchids. Watercolour painting.
  • Two canaries feeding their young in a basket. Coloured etching.
  • A man holding a fish and some flowers in a basket.
  • A man holding a fish and some flowers in a basket.
  • A woman putting a basket down. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman putting a basket down. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman putting a basket down. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.