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A vendor of spectacles showing his wares to a woman at her spinning wheel, while her family look on. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Reference: 16246i- Pictures
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Spinners and stocking makers: interior view, a spinning wheel and a stocking machine. Engraving.
Date: 1750Reference: 36682i- Pictures
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Textiles: a spinning wheel (top), making the design (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
Radel, active 1751-1767.Reference: 43824i- Pictures
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Textiles: silk weaving, equipment using spinning wheel. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 43596i- Pictures
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Elevations of a spinning-wheel used in the making of gold thread. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 36453i- Pictures
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Textiles: spinning-wheel with various components used in the making of gold thread. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 36457i- Pictures
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Textiles: spinning wheel with various components used in the making of gold thread. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 35977i- Pictures
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A young woman is using a spinning wheel under a tree with a spindle and shuttle. Engraving by Saunders after Woolley.
Woolley, W., 1750-1800.Date: 1790-1799Reference: 29957i- Pictures
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Gold workshop: interior view, spinning wheel with various components used in the making of gold thread. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 35976i- Pictures
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A group of people gathered around an old lady sitting by a spinning wheel holding a spool of yarn. Lithograph by Gustave Janet.
Reference: 27020i- Books
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A choice garland, containing three excellent songs. 1 The spinning wheel's glory. 2 The brazier's daughter, or pretty Betsey. 3 The London apprentice.
Date: [1790?]- Pictures
A woman sits working at a spinning wheel as a man works at the table making a violin. Wood engraving by C & H after H. Herkomer.
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849-1914.Date: [1872]Reference: 33784i- Pictures
A young woman is met by a Scottish guardsman at a stile outside a cottage while her mother or guardian sleeps at her spinning wheel. Stipple engraving, 1806.
Date: 1806Reference: 2491690i- Pictures
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A woman is sitting by the window making lace on a pillow while another woman sits by a spinning wheel watching a kitten play with a reel of cotton; a man holds a swift or skein winder. Engraving by W. French after F.J. Luckx.
Luckx, Frans Joseph, 1802-1849.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 30998i- Books
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Mogg the brunettes garland. Containing several excellent new songs. I. Mogg the Brunette. II. As sure as a Gun. III. The Banks of Banna. IV The Biskt of Invermay. V. The Spinning-Wheel. VI. Come rouse Brother Sportsman. Licensed and entered according to Order.
Date: 1790?]- Books
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Mogg the brunette's garland, containing several excellent new songs. 1. Mogg the Brunette. 2. As sure as a Gun. 3. The Banks of Banna. 4. The Birks of Invermay. 5. The Spinning Wheel. 6. Come rouse Brother Sportsman. Licensed and entered according to order.
Date: 1785?]- Books
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A hint to the fair sex. A garland, containing six new songs, viz. 1 A hint to the fair sex. 2 A new spinning wheel. 3 The causist, 4 Bellisle March or the Review. 5 A New Song. 6 A New Song sung by Mr Jegger.
Date: [1762?]- Books
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The female manufacturers complaint: being The Humble Petition of Dorothy Distaff, Abigail Spinning-Wheel, Eleanor Reel, &c. Spinsters, to the Lady Rebecca Woollpack. With A Respectful Epistle to Sir R---- St----l, concerning some Omissions of the utmost Importance in his Lady's Wardrobe. By Monsieur de Brocade of Paris.
Date: 1720- Pictures
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A winged woman holding a palm branch in her right hand and a spinning wheel with a small man perched on top in her left, walks past a globe, while a ship with billowing sails is passing by in the background; representing fortune. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1541.
Reference: 38999i- Pictures
Page 16: two images, one of a woman spinning, the other of two young Sikhs. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 27021i- Pictures
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Textiles: two spinning wheels, for wool (top) and silk (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
Radel, active 1751-1767.Reference: 43883i- Pictures
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The blinding of Tobit by bird-droppings falling on his eyes. Woodcut by M. van Heemskerck.
Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574.Reference: 16431i- Books
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The careful wife's good counsel; and the husband's firm resolution to reform his life, in order to lay up something for a Rainy-Day. Kind Husband if you mean to thrive, Some other way you must contrive, And not consume and waste your store, It will be hard to work for more; Therefore be rul'd by me, I pray, Save something for a Rainy-Day. I in the yoke will draw with you, And what I can will freely do; If you the like will do again, Our charge I'm sure we may maintain; Thus by our labour, then we may Save something for a Rainy-Day. Tune of the spinning wheel,&c.
Date: 1750?]- Pictures
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A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience; a child to the right imitates the fiddler. Line engraving by T. Nicholson after D. Wilkie.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Reference: 16374iPart of: National Gallery of pictures by the great masters.- Pictures
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A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience. Colour engraving by J. Burnet after D. Wilkie, 1806.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: 6 January 1877Reference: 16584i