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Women personified as angels are accompanied by the equipment of sewing in an advertisement for Singer sewing machines. Colour lithograph.
Reference: 35344i- Pictures
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Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with angels: she is sewing. Engraving by G. Ottaviani after P. Angeletti after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Reference: 10705i- Pictures
A seated man in profile to right sewing a sheet of white fabric with needle and thread. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 2033498iPart of: A collection of Indian costumes, types and occupations. Gouache paintings by an Indian artist.- Pictures
Hands sewing the incision from a caesarean section.
Spears, Heather, 1934-Date: 1987Reference: 3329263i.106Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.- Books
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"Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930 / by Sarah A. Gordon.
Gordon, Sarah ADate: 2009, ©2007- Pictures
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Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: [1869]Reference: 35340i- Pictures
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University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a nurse sewing an embroidered cloth. Photograph, 1921.
Date: 1921Reference: 28456i- Pictures
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A woman is sitting sewing a piece of ribbon onto lace. Coloured lithograph.
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An old woman is threading a needle, there are various sewing instruments on the table. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M.W. Sharp.
Sharp, Michael William, -1840.Date: July 1st. 1823Reference: 29997i- Pictures
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A woman sewing in a pleasant domestic interior, her baby sleeps sweetly in its cradle. Aquatint by J. Sartain after G. Dou.
Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.Reference: 17587i- Pictures
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Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, one sewing, one using a typewriter. Photograph, c. 1927.
Date: 1930Reference: 33681i- Pictures
Two clothmakers, seated on a striped rug, sewing a tablecloth. Gouache by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 778055i- Pictures
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Beaunes, France: a nurse sewing in the first floor gallery of the Hôtel Dieu. Photographic postcard, ca. 1930.
Date: 1930Reference: 569030i- Ephemera
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Beecham's school quiz : sewing card : embroider, paint or crayon this design to your own colour scheme.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Pictures
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A domestic scene: a man reading a large book, one woman tending a child and another sewing. Mezzotint.
Reference: 27014i- Pictures
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An old woman seated, sewing, with a cat on the back of her chair. Watercolour attributed to S. Jenner.
Jenner, Stephen, 1796-Reference: 560828i- Pictures
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Women visiting a beach to enjoy geological collecting, study, sewing and other worthy activities. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: Jany. 2nd 1865Reference: 37620i- Pictures
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A Parisian seamstress suffering from anaemia is pale and weary at her sewing machine and drops her scissors; advertising the medicine Fer Bravais for anaemia. Colour lithograph by A.-L. Willette, 1896.
Willette, Adolphe, 1857-1926.Date: [896]Reference: 549405i- Pictures
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Textiles: tapestry weaving, details of the use of pincers (top), and sewing needles (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
Radel, active 1751-1767.Reference: 43887i- Pictures
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Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver sewing different coloured threads at the back of the work. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
Radel, active 1751-1767.Reference: 43962i- Books
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On the operation for the removal of cataract : as performed with a fine sewing needle through the cornea / by Arthur Jacob.
Jacob, Arthur, 1790-1874.Date: 1850- Pictures
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Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners are sitting in a room sewing large pieces of cloth. Wood engraving by H.H. after M. Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: [1874]Reference: 37708i- Pictures
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A mother sits sewing as her children play: promoting Norplant as a family planning method in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Family Health Services Project, ca. 1994.
Date: [1994?]Reference: 799487i- Pictures
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Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
Studio Leonardi (Rome, Italy)Date: 1914Reference: 35966i- Pictures
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Two bookbinders at work: one is sewing the quires of a volume with thread, while the other is tightening a volume in a nipping press. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34968i