Artistic Historical Workshops

Artistic depictions of workers in historical settings, showcasing crafts and manufacturing processes from the 19th century.

Rolls of cable at Gutta-percha (rubber) Works From WH Russell 'The Atlantic Telegraph' London 1866. Tinted lithograph

Weaver, with a Baby in a High Chair. Date: January 1884, Nuenen. Dimensions: 31.5 cm x 39.9 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Forge 1909. By Carl Stilling (1874-1938), danish painter . 1909. Deutsches Historisches Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Rolls of cable at Gutta-percha (rubber) Works From WH Russell 'The Atlantic Telegraph' London 1866. Tinted lithograph

In the silver factory, draughtsman: Anthon Gerhard Alexander van Rappard, 1868 - 1892, paper, h 218 mm × w 376 mm

James Watt's Work Room Heathfield Hall By Jonathon Pratt Heathfield Hall, sometimes referred to as Heathfield House, was was erected between 1787-90 for the celebrated engineer and inventor, James Watt, and was designed by Samuel Wyatt., Industrial Revolution, Workshop, Lunar Society, Work bench

The Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, at Greenwich 1865-66 Robert Charles Dudley British One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks. Two working cables were finally laid in July and September 1866, the result of repeated efforts by the indefatigable Field, a cadre of engineers, technicians, and sailors, two groups of financial backers, and significant help from the British and United States navies. This watercolor by Dudley shows specially insulated wire cable being prepared at Greenwich, east of London on the Thames. A core of seven strands of pure copper wi

Workshop in the silver factory. Draughtsman: Anthon Gerhard Alexander van Rappard. Dating: 1883. Measurements: h 500 mm × w 1000 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, at Greenwich. Artist: Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1909). Dimensions: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 9 9/16 in. (16.3 × 24.3 cm). Date: 1865-66.One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks. Two working cables were finally laid in July and September 1866, the result of repeated efforts by the indefatigable Field, a cadre of engineers, technicians, and sailors, two groups of financial backers, and significant help from the British and United States navies. This watercolor by Dudley shows specially insulated wire cable being prepare

American family , Factories, Laborers. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Workplace in the Silver Factory.

Fire House ca. 1900 Artist Unknown

'Four years in the fight'. Women working in a munitions factory during World War I. YWCA fundraising poster. Color lithograph, ca. 1918

Interior of an Ironworks. Date/Period: 1850. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 470 mm (18.50 in); Width: 613 mm (24.13 in). Author: Godfrey Sykes.

World War I Four years in the fight. The women of France, we owe them houses of cheer. United War Work Campaign. Y.W.C.A.. American poster, 1918 of women drawing furnaces and handling hot ingots. Industry Metal

Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern: The Cable Passing Out 1865-66 Robert Charles Dudley British One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks. Two working cables were finally laid in July and September 1866, the result of repeated efforts by the indefatigable Field, a cadre of engineers, technicians, and sailors, two groups of financial backers, and significant help from the British and United States navies. This watercolor by Dudley shows one of the three huge tanks inside the hull of the Great Eastern used to transport 2,400 nautical miles of coiled cable. Part of a series documenting the long, arduous process, this image was reproduced

Smid in his blacksmith, Willem Witsen, 1870 - 1923 drawing cardboard. chalk. watercolor (paint) brush smith, blacksmith. smith, blacksmith (+ indoors; in laboratory, factory, barn, etc.)

Four years in the fight. The women of France, we owe them houses of cheer. United War Work Campaign. Y.W.C.A. Artist Jonas, Lucien, 1880-1947, Published 1918. Summary: Women working in a factory.

Coal miners test drilling at a mine, England 1948

Stokers at work in the heat of the boiler room of a transatlantic liner. The man in the foreground is raking out clinker from the fire box while the man further along the row of is shovelling in more coal. From 'La Science Illustree' (Paris, 1892). Engraving

Turbine installation, Chernyshev, Tikhon Pavlovich (1882-1942)

The hot rolling workshop of the "Red Nail Maker's" Factory in Leningrad, Pavlov, Semyon Andreevich (1893-1941)

Francis A Beckett, Blacksmith Shop, c 1880 Blacksmith Shop

Blacksmith Shop. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 51 x 67 cm (20 1/16 x 26 3/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Perkins Harnly.

Weaver's Workshop, Cornelis Gerritsz Decker, 1659 painting Interior of a weaver workshop with two weavers that are bent over a loom in conversation. On the left a rinsing wheel, on the right a crib and household goods. panel. oil paint (paint) weaving-loom. weaving-loom (+ men (labourers))

Shoemaker in his workshop, Pieter van den Berge, 1686 - 1696 print A shoemaker is working in his workshop. He laps a shoe and smokes a pipe. In the background, a woman wipes the buttocks of a child with a cloth. Amsterdam paper engraving shoe-maker, cobbler. hygienic care of children

Kirov visiting the Putilov factory, Smukrovich, Pyotr Iosifovich (1878-1942)

Woman Riveter leans exhausted against a support rail.

Riveting the Plates of a Penstock for a Hydro Electric Power Plant, circa 1923

Steelworks. Scene in rolling mill.Artist V Rozhedstvensky, 1930.

Blacksmith's shop in Tinakori Road paintings

The Engineer using a file on an engine part held in a vise. Engineers made and maintained the steam engines and railway machinery used in manufacturing and transport. Chromolithograph from a children's book published in 1867. Colour

Interior of a Smithy. Date: n.d. oil on canvas. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Perkins Harnly, Iron Foundry, 1910, 1935 1942 Iron Foundry, 1910

The puller-over , Shoe industry, Shoemaking, Equipment

Interior of an ironworks, Godfrey Sykes, 1824-1866, British, 1850, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 14 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches (36.2 x 44.5 cm), arches, costume, forge, genre subject, industry, interior, ironworks, light, machinery, men, metal, metallurgy, metalworking, ropes, science, tools, workers

Interior of a rock salt mine at Northwich, Cheshire. Miners preparing to haul salt up to the surface. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.

VILLAR NAVARRO, Rafael del (1873-1952). barrel-making. 19th c. Oil on canvas. Private Collection.

Iron Rolling Mill 1875 Adolf von Menzel (1815-1905 German) Oil On Canvas Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, (Nationalgalerie), Berlin, Germany

Northwest Logging Camp Dinner Hall Artist Unknown Engraving Culver Pictures Inc.

The Distillery of apothecary A. The Ailly In The Ramparts of the ZaagMollenpo so Amsterdam, Johnsam, Jeelgelhi, 1818 painting Interior of the 'Stoockhuys' by pharmacist Anthony d'Ailly at the stronghold at the Zaagmolenpoort in Amsterdam. A man stirs in a large kettle that stands on the fire, a boy on the left fires the fire in the oven. There are large distillation bottles, tons and barrels in the workshop of the pharmacy. Pendant of SK-A-2714. canvas. oil paint (paint) pharmacist, druggist, apothecary; pharmacy, drugstore, dispensing chemist. distilled spirits. tools and implements of pharmacist ZaagMollenpo so

Motor Manufacturing Description: "Motor Manufacturing" by Clive Gardiner for the Empire Marketing Board. Date: c.1930 work, poster, factory, power, machine, gardner, 1930, empiremarketingboard, colonialoffice, motormanufacturing, clivegardner

France, Soissons, The Sawmill of Villers-Cotterets in 1889

North Korean propaganda picture 'At the farm machinery workshop'. 1961.

The glow of rivets on a shipyard, Herman Heijenbrock, 1900 - 1930 drawing Netherlands Carrier: Paper. List: Wood (plant material). List: Glass Netherlands

An American illustration of a man watching a waterwheel churning water by a mill 1870

The Loading - Landings, Newfoundland Lumberjacks at Work in Scottish Forest, David Macbeth Sutherland (Wick, Scotland, 1883 - 1973) 1940

Interior of the distillery. From Views in the island of Antigua, illustrating steps of process of cane sugar making. drawings made by William Clark. 1823

Tapping the Heat by Rose McGary, USA, Pennsylvania, University Park, Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Steidle Collection

Big Steel by Howard L. Worner, oil on masonite, 1951, USA, Pennsylvania, University Park, Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Steidle Collection

Filling beer barrels in an American brewery, 1885. Artist: Unknown

Blowing Steel by George Pearse Ennis, oil on canvas, (1884-1936), USA, Pennsylvania, University Park, Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Steidle Collection

Engraving depicting a Beaumont drilling machine piercing the last piece of rock to complete the Mersey tunnel.

'The Fight for the Harvest': sorting of seeds in a Mordva collective farm, 1933. Artist: Unknown

Historical illustration, 19th century, technical processing of steelmaking with a casting ladle in a blast furnace, 1894

Two women work on a production line at a fish canning factory, England 1948

Chain Company Manufacturing Plant.

Building airplanes. World War I, England, 20th century.

The Ironworkers' Noontime 1880 Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851-1912 American) Oil on canvas Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California, USA

Magazine illustration showing a steel mill and furnace in France 1934.

The steelworks of John Brown & Co, Sheffield, Yorkshire : the 6000 ton forging press Date: 1920

Drift Mouth by Lawrence Whitaker, oil on canvas, USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Steidle Collection, 1935

In the forge, three men at the forge forging iron, painting by Lentz, Stanislaw (1861-1920), Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

What a Pipe of Water Can Do. When the conductor in a hydraulic elevator wants the cage to go down, he pulls the rope to raise the plug. The high-pressure water is then shut off, and the water in the cylinder runs away, so that the plunger rod slides down, bringing the cage with it. It must be clearly understood that the rope does not pull the cage up or down. It simply moves the plug, and the water provides the power to drive the cage. the cage can be stopped at any desired point by moving the plug so that it shuts both the high-pressure pipe and the waste-water pipe. In many elevators, the p

Steel workers. Painting by N. Trufanov.

Siberian Petroleum extraction; 1977, by Andrey Petrovich Surovtsev Soviet and later Russian painter, 1931-2006.

New Weaving Workshop in Orechovo - Zuevo, by Kasatkin Nikolaj Alekseevic, 20th Century, 1904, oil on canvas, cm 81 x 61

Building site. Building site north of the Overtoom in Amsterdam. On the left a man with a horse that yields piles.

Carpenter sitting on a planing bench in his workshop, draughtsman: Jacob Taanman, 1861, paper, brush, h 218 mm × w 173 mm

De Slijper, Isaac Israels, 1875 - 1919 drawing paper. chalk brush handicrafts ~ maintenance and repair. sharpening, grinding (industrial processes). workshop-interior

The Syracuse Blacksmith Shop. (Fusion).. Eugene S. M. Haines (American, 1833 - 1909)

Men at industrial plant by Adolph Friedrich von Menzel, Oil on canvas, 1873-1875, 1815-1905, Germany, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 254x158

A toy maker at his work bench putting the finishing touches to a horse on wheels. Date: 1914

Steel Works by Edward C. Michener, watercolor, USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Steidle Collection, 1936

Coal mining, Anthracite Region of Pa. Loaded cars being placed on cage to be raised to surface , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Eisenwalzwerk / The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes). Date/Period: 1875. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 158 cm (62.2 in); Width: 254 cm (100 in). Author: ADOLPH VON MENZEL.

Portada de la revista El Eco Edición Universal 1943, editada en Berlín. Transporte marítimo. Marineros en la cubierta de un barco introduciendo la carga en la bodega.

The Blacksmith's Shop. William Woodhouse (1857-1939). Oil on canvas. 76.5 x 63.7cm.

Industry, Soviet Constructivist

Coal mining, Anthracite Region, Pennsylvania. An electric locomotive hauling loaded cars to foot of mine , Industrial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Alfred Grodzki. Composition of machines, agricultural tools and seeds. Unknown, Kossak, Wojciech (1856 1942), Printing House of W.L. Anczyca in Krakow

Industrial Revolution. Nineteenth century. English miner and transport of coal mined. Engraving after a watercolor (1814) by George Walker. Colored.

Liquid Steel Carl A. Walberg Oil on Canvas Steidle Collection, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University

Workers loading freight for Europe on a New York wharf, 19th century. From America Revisited: From The Bay of New York to The Gulf of Mexico, published 1886.

The top of a coal mine, painting by Gerald Palmer (1886-1961). Illustrator born in Ferryhill, Co. Durham the son of a mining engineer. His art education is not known but he was active as a painter in Britain from c.1908 onwards

The wire and cable factory 'Draka' in Arnhem: checking cables, Herman Heijenbrock, c. 1871 - c. 1948 drawing Netherlands Carrier: Paper. List: Wood (plant material). List: Glass Arnhem

Workers in a binding workshop. 19th century lithography.

Threshing Barn by Venetsianov, Alexei Gavrilovich (1780-1847) State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 1823 Oil on canvas 66,5x80,5 Russia Romanticism Architecture, Interior,Genre Painting

Industrial Revolution. London. Interior of an English factory. Late 18th century. Nineteenth-century colored engraving.

George Agricola (1494-1555) . Book De Re Metallica, 1556. Book VIII. Extract the metals. Engraving by Basilius Weffring.A.Sieve. B.Its handles. C.Tub. D.Bottom of sieve made of iron wires. E.Hoop. F.Rods. G.Hoops. H.Woman shaking the sieve. I.Boy supplying it with material which requires washing. K.Man with shovel removing from the tub the material which has passed through the sieve.

Manufacture of paints and varnishes, company Sadolin in Copenhagen, 1930, Denmark, illustration, reproduction from a model from the 19th century. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, historical

Collier's, Industrial Number, May 18, 1901, Price 10 Cents. Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925. text. Posters. 1901. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. United States, Building construction, Construction workers

A color print by Ludwig Hohlwein from 1912 depicting Pfaff sewing machines in Munich, showing products and industrial design.

'Shoemaker's Workshop'. Holland, 1656. Dimensions: 51,5x68,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Sybrand van Beest.

Buckeye, Farm Machinery

Deering Ideal Binder, Farm Machinery

Steelworks of John Brown & Co., Sheffield: the hollow rolling mill. Date: 1920

Every hour of work in Germany Each hour of work in Germany ". Color lithography, 1944.

Laying bitumen road surface in a Paris street. In background man is drawing buckets of liquid bitumen from tanker for the workmen to spread. Men are wearing wooden shoes (sabots). Liebig trade card c1900. Chromolithograph.

On the Job for Victory, Merchant Marine

Late 19th century glass factory. In the centre a worker is making a cylinder of glass which will be flattened and formed into a sheet, mainly used for window. Liebig trade card c1900.

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