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  • Peking knife-grinder,
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a knife-grinder. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a knife-grinder. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A man is carrying a knife grinder's wheel on his back. Watercolour painting.
  • A man is carrying a knife grinder's wheel on his back. Coloured lithograph by G. Lenghi.
  • A knife grinder is using his wheel and many people are bringing him items to sharpen. Etching.
  • A knife-grinder sharpening a blade on a grinding wheel as a customer arrives with a plane to be sharpened. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Two Indian soldiers (?) take aim and fire their rifles. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • An Indian bearer holding a large, richly decorated fan or banner, horizontally on his shoulder. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Two men sharpening a knife whilst the third prepares the blade on a sword. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A couple preparing tandoori rotis: the woman faces the tandoor and shapes the bread with her hands as she nurses her baby, whilst the man kneeds the dough. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Two carpenters, possibly father and son, at work. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A man raises a stick as the oxen plough the land. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by F. Perrier.
  • Two Shwetambar Jain monks. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.