works

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Wellcome Café

Wellcome Kitchen

Wellcome Shop

To make your visit as safe and enjoyable as possible, you’ll need to follow our safety measures inside our venue, including wearing a face covering unless you’re exempt. Find out how we're keeping you safe. You no longer need to book a ticket to enter the museum or library.

We’re undertaking research with website visitors to find out some more about you and what you thought about your visit. This survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!

What brought you to our website today?

1 print : wood-engraving ; image 15.7 x 14.5 cm

Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

They are farm workers. Cupid flies towards them

As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 18 x 11.5 cm

A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.

1 painting : watercolour, with pencil ; image 22.4 x 27.1 cm

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

Leaflet advertising advertising Hudson's Dry Soap detergent. The front is a colour illustration showing a farmer washing a cow and 2 women washing milk churns and cream pans with the soap in a field. There is an A-Z of the various ways in which the soap can be used for cleaning. Robert Spear Hudson (d.1884) invented the first dry soap powder, "Hudson's Dry Soap" in 1837 in his small pharmacy in West Bromwich, England, moving to Liverpool in the 1880s. He advertised extensively, first locally and then nationally, as his business and use of his products grew. The firm was taken over by Lever Brothers Ltd. (now part of Unilever) in 1908.

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 14 x 23 cm

Hudson's Dry Soap gained grand gold medal, Paris National Academy, 1877 ... : Hudson's Dry Soap gained highest medal, Paris exhibition, for washing preparations 1878.

"In Return from the harvest (No. 48, Fig. 127) in the Pitti Palace, everything indicates that man is a part of nature: the movement that unifies the work, the light that suffuses the whole, the transition of planes and colours, the parallel between the women carrying loads of produce on their heads and the tree-tops swaying in the wind.."--Adler, op. cit., p. 33
"In an extensive flat landscape under a cloudy sky at the height of summer, a stream on the right near the spectator is bordered by trees reflected in its waters. In front five countrywomen, most of them young, are moving briskly across the scene. The three on the right, two young and one old, are walking to the right, carrying a pitchfork and rakes. The girl in front is looking towards the spectator. The last of the three, who is also young, looks round with animation at a man who is moving towards the spectator and pointing in the direction in which the women are going. The two other women, seen from behind, are carrying loads of hay and turnips on their heads and are stepping rapidly towards the man. A wide road leads from the lower left corner diagonally across the picture; a carter with a rack waggon and two horses, a grey and a bay, advances towards the open country which stretches out beyond the groups of trees. Mounted on the grey horse, he waves with his whip towards the women; in front of him the way into the middle distance is marked by a flock of sheep, hurried along by a sheepdog. Further off on the left are grazing horses, tall pointed haystacks, bushes and trees, and in the background the tower of a Gothic church (Roger de Piles called the picture La veue de Malines). A pair of hawks hover in the air, looking for prey. The long shadows show that it is late afternoon … Goethe, who possessed Schelte a Bolswert's engraving of this picture, commented on it briefly to Eckermann on 11 April 1827, and at length to Eckermann and others on 18 April. He observed that the homeward-bound harvesters in the foreground and the clump of trees on the right were illuminated from opposite sides and thus cast their shadows towards each other; he commended this, however, as an example of Rubens’s artistic freedom"--Adler, op. cit., p. 152

A rural landscape (near Mechelen?): men are building haystacks, sheep are driven along a country road, two women carry clumps of turnips, and other women walk home carrying rakes and a pitchfork. Engraving by F. Vivares, 1775, after Sir P. P. Rubens.

Report on safety, health, welfare and wages in agriculture.

1 print : wood-engraving ; image 14.3 x 13.6 cm

Two scenes of farm buildings with workers packing hops. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

Medical Heritage Library

xiv pages 1 leaf, 378 pages, 1 leaf : illustrations ; 22 cm

Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture.

The laboring classes of England : especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures; in a series of letters / by an Englishman ; also, A voice from the factories, a poem, in serious verse.

Wellcome uses cookies.

More filters

Active filters:

Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.

A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

Hudson's Dry Soap gained grand gold medal, Paris National Academy, 1877 ... : Hudson's Dry Soap gained highest medal, Paris exhibition, for washing preparations 1878.

A rural landscape (near Mechelen?): men are building haystacks, sheep are driven along a country road, two women carry clumps of turnips, and other women walk home carrying rakes and a pitchfork. Engraving by F. Vivares, 1775, after Sir P. P. Rubens.

Report on safety, health, welfare and wages in agriculture.

Two scenes of farm buildings with workers packing hops. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture.

The laboring classes of England : especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures; in a series of letters / by an Englishman ; also, A voice from the factories, a poem, in serious verse.

Stay in the know

Wellcome collection

Finding us:

Opening times:

Today's opening times

Wellcome uses cookies.

Search the collections

More filters

Active filters:

Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.

A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

Hudson's Dry Soap gained grand gold medal, Paris National Academy, 1877 ... : Hudson's Dry Soap gained highest medal, Paris exhibition, for washing preparations 1878.

A rural landscape (near Mechelen?): men are building haystacks, sheep are driven along a country road, two women carry clumps of turnips, and other women walk home carrying rakes and a pitchfork. Engraving by F. Vivares, 1775, after Sir P. P. Rubens.

Report on safety, health, welfare and wages in agriculture.

Two scenes of farm buildings with workers packing hops. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture.

The laboring classes of England : especially those engaged in agriculture and manufactures; in a series of letters / by an Englishman ; also, A voice from the factories, a poem, in serious verse.

Stay in the know

Wellcome collectionWellcome Collection

Finding us:

Opening times:

Today's opening times

Wellcome collection