Medieval Trades and Crafts

Engravings illustrating various medieval trades, showcasing artisans at work, including goldsmiths, swordmakers, and basin makers in detailed workshop environments.

Goldsmiths at work. Date: 1568

Goldsmiths at work. Date: 1568

GRABADO-GREMIOS DE TRABAJADORES S XVIII. Location: BANCO DE ESPAÑA-COLECCION ARTE. MADRID. SPAIN.

The trades. The swordmaker. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Basin maker. Reproduction of a 16th-century engraving by Jost Amman. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Taller de un grabador en madera. Grabado del siglo XVII.

Woodcut depicting the process of coining. Dated 16th century

Coppersmisth. Engraving by Jost Amman. 16th century.

Arithmetic, from the cycle: The Seven Liberal Arts. Pencz, Georg (ca 1500-1550), graphic artist

Haarlem, Numan, Hendrik, Figures at work in a paper workshop, verso lower left - stamped, print, prints, height 100 mm, width 137 mm, 1736-03-21 - 1788, print maker, printmaker, 1746 - 1788, paper, papier, woodcut

The trades. The dyer. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Liefrinck, Hans (I), Swart van Groningen, Jan, The life of John the Baptist, Birth of John the Baptist, verso bottom center - stamped, Bedroom with three women washing newborn baby John and preparing the crib. Elisabeth in bed., print, prints, height 242 mm, width 188 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1518 - 1573-02-28, print maker, printmaker, 1553 - 1558, third quarter 16th century, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, Northern Netherlands, 1500 - 1562, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

medicine treatment cauterization woodcut coloured from ""Feldtbuch der Wundartzney"" by Hans von Gersdorff Strasbourg Germany 1528,

A copper engraving from 1510-1527 by an unknown artist showing a shepherd with a reclining nymph, depicting human figures in a naturalistic landscape.

Een tekenaar tekent een vrouw.A draftsman signs a model in shortened perspective, using a window that is divided into square boxes, and a sheet of paper on which such a same network is drawn.

Arquebusier, 16th century (1849).Artist: Jost Amman

Clasp maker. Reproduction of a 16th-century engraving by Jost Amman. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Dyer. 19th century reproduction of 16th century woodcut by Jost Amman

After Albrecht Dürer, The Draughtsman of the Lute, 1514, engraving on paper.

love sex and eroticism adultery ""Funny story of a water carrier"" copper engraving France mid 17th century private collection,

John Cottington, a chimney-sweep, in elaborate costume walking the street with smoking pipe and horn in hand, with descriptive verse. Line block, 18--, after engraving, c. 1620.

Woodcut engraving depicting a Flemish weaver by Jost Amman. Jost Amman (1539-1591) a Swiss-German artist. Dated 16th century

Torture, Burning on a Grate, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Interior of an hostelry. 19th century facsimile after a woodcut from an edition of Virgil's works published in Lyon in 1517. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

The stolen Host, seventh episode: the Jewish merchant boils the Host but his wife saves it. Etching by F. Ragot.

A woodcut engraving depicting a Flemish weaver. Woodcut by Jost Amman (1539-1591) a Swiss-German artist. Dated 16th century

Lute Maker in his workshop Jost Amman 1535-1591, woodcut,

Auca de Artes y Oficios, detalle tejedor, siglo XIX. IMHCB.

Diogenes and Alexander from Unpublished Monuments of Antiquity (Monumenti antichi inediti) by Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) after a bas-relief of Villa Albani in Rome, engraving, 1767

17th century engraved illustration from a collection of proverbs. Paris 1657-1663. By Jacques Lagniet (1620 - 1675); French engraver. From him many socially critical engravings and mockery pictures such as his sometimes grotesque and fantastic illustrations for a collection of well-known proverbs from the year 1657 come.

Douche treatment room. Aachen (Aix), the famous spa town, known to the Romans as Aquisgranum. From Amusements des eaux dAix-la-Chapelle, Amsterdam, 1736.

Cooper's workshop. 16th century engraving by Jost Amman. "Les Arts au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1877.

De Re Metallica by Goerge Agricola, 1556. Illustration of Book X. Gold parting. The separating of gold from silver. Author: George Agricola.

Woodcut by Hans Baldung Grien depicting Saint Barbara, showing the figure, attributes, and architectural background, created around 1505-1507.

Pythagoras (6th century BC), right, using counting table, competes against Boethius (Boece) using algorithms for speed at calculation. Behind them hovers the figure of Arithmetic From Margarita Philosophica Basle, 1508. Hand-coloured woodcut

Picture left of verse numbered: 33., Button maker Der Knopff-Presser , print maker: Jan Luyken, anonymous, Amsterdam, 1711, paper, etching, h 132 mm × w 83 mm

Bell and cannon caster, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost Amman

Companion Carpenter. 19th century reproduction of 15th century woodcut from Chronique de Nuremberg

The Smokers. Abraham Bosse (France, Tours, 1602-1676)Jean de Saint-Igny (Framce, ca. 1600-after 1649). France, circa 1635. Prints; etchings. Etching

Auca de Artes y Oficios, detalle cadidaire, siglo XIX. IMHCB.

The Fables of Bidpai. Folio 6: Music manufacture in a medieval interior. German edition from 1480 after the Hindu original from 1348. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. PICARDY. OISE. Chantilly. Mus_e Cond_ (Cond_ Museum).

Allegorical depiction of a solar eclipse in Stockholm in 1535. A man standing in a gate, seen on the back. Through the portal a look through to a city. In the sky the sun, moon and stars. On the left a putto with a smoking pot, right a putto with palm branch and laurel wreath.

Boys play the Jonas game in the wallevis. Draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch (mentioned on object). Dating: 26-Feb-1649. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 128 mm × w 210 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Warrior with Swan from Waterland; Title page for: Hendrik Jacobsz Soeteboom, the sweet tower Zwaan van Waterland, 1702.A Warrior is in Hand With a Sword. On Both Sides Other Weapon. Above Him Different Coats or Arms of Villages and Cities in The Waterland Region. Down the Swan or Waterland. Title Page For The Book The Sweet Swan From Waterland.

17th century engraved illustration from a collection of proverbs. Paris 1657-1663. By Jacques Lagniet (1620 - 1675); French engraver. From him many socially critical engravings and mockery pictures such as his sometimes grotesque and fantastic illustrations for a collection of well-known proverbs from the year 1657 come.

Pin and Needle maker. Reproduction of a 16th-century engraving by Jost Amman. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Illustration from Livret des Emblemes by Andreas Alciatus, plate 66 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century 1536 France. Woodcut on paper . Unknown artist

Folter, Tortur, Inquisition, a. Verurteilter, der von Jungen mit ihren Schreibfedern tödlich verwundet wurde, b. Verurteilter, dessen Gliedmaßen nacheinander amputiert wurden., Illustration, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, Mittelater, Authentisch, Datei restauriert für optimale Verwendung, genaues Datum der Vorlage unbekannt gallonio-tortures-1591-p29-4c2930

Torture, ordeal, inquisition, sometimes the convicts were tied to the circumference of large wheels and thus plunged from a great height onto rocky ground., illustration, reproduction from a 16th century model, medieval, authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown

The Brewer. 19th century copy of picture designed and engraved in 16th century by Jost Amman

Death accompanies old man, 1712 print Death as a skeleton with Zeis accompanies an old man with a beard and walking stick. At the top a drapery with four -line French text. paper etching Death as skeleton. old man

Illustration from Livret des Emblemes by Andreas Alciatus, plate 66 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Unknown Artist (French, 16th century); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1943). Date: 1536. Dimensions: 67 × 63 mm (image); 163 × 106 mm (sheet). Woodcut on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

A mason Date: 17th century

A man is holding a lute in his hand, other musical instruments are on the walls and there are tools on the bench in his workshop. Woodcut by Jost Amman.

alchemy distilliation stove with two adepts woodcut ""Coelum Philosophorum"" by Philipp Ulstadt Strassburg circa 1520/1530 private collection,

The tailor, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836.

Woman Filling Water-Cans Made 1854 France. Woodcut in dark brown on ivory laid China paper, with an etching of a landscape, verso . Pierre Millet

Frontispiece of 'The Smoking Age, or, The Life and Death of Tobacco,' issued in 1617. Published in London by E. Griffin at the Sign of Red-eyes, it depicts smoking and tobacco shops

Amsterdam, Kannewet, Johannes (II), Netherlands, An Old Man Sitting in His Room, Speaking., Old Man in His Room (vanitas), verso lower left - stamped, Reprint of 16th century block for a popular print. Old man sitting at a table, leaning on a skull. On the table is a smoking candle, an hourglass and coins. Below the image a poem in Dutch, six stanzas., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 245 mm, width 199 mm, height 410 mm, width 315 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1550 - 1600, third quarter 16th century, derde kwart 16e eeuw, fourth quarter 16th century, fourth quarter of the 16th century, second quarter of the 18th century, third quarter of the 18th century, fourth quarter of the 18th century, paper, woodcut, hand-colouring, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch, publisher, 1735 - 1780

Engraving depicting the principles of leverage. Dated 16th Century

Eremushka i babushka.. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1881. Rare Book Division. Folk art , Russia (Federation), Russia , Social life and customs, Engraving, Russian

Preparation of the coating to paint a mural. - Drawing of L. -Chevignard, for after Andrea Pozzo, vintage engraving. Preparation of the coating to paint a mural. - Drawing of L. -Chevignard, for after Andrea Pozzo, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1875. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679652

Torture with sharp points and wheels, Antonio Tempesta, 1565 - 1630 print Numbered in the middle: 27. print maker: Italyafter own design by: Italypublisher: RomeVaticaanstad paper etching torture. violent death ~ maltreatment, torture

Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "Varied figures, frontispiece. First issue of a suite of 16 pieces" (Lieure 403, Meaume 730). Etching. 1st half of the 16th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99604-17 Etching, engraving

The Fellow 'Prentices at Their Looms. Dated: 1747. Medium: etching and engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: William Hogarth.

Title print from a series of six prints and a title print depicting various human activities by monkeys. Copies after prints by Quirin Boel, with a verse added in Dutch below each depiction, Two monkeys hold a globe Different businesses of human life represented by monkeys (series title) What is 't that m' in deez' Waereld sees / 'Tis Aape game, and not otherwise (series title on object), print maker: anonymous, Quirin Boel, David Teniers (II), Low Countries, 1635 - 1724, paper, etching, engraving, h 110 mm × w 140 mm

Engraving depicting a merchant and his clerk using a calculating table marked out in the form of an abacus. Dated 17th century

Scourging a man; Machine dévinatoire igeniezee pour trouver les Trésors (...); Brabant Review, 1787-1790. Cartoon in which a man is played in a shame with a whip on his rear. On the left is a figure consisting of wooden barrels, on the right a barrel with money pieces, barsting from the joints. Part of a large group of prints related to the events of the Brabant Review and the period 1787-1790.

The old man and death, Wenceslaus Hollar, after Hans Holbein (II), c. 1680 print Death leads an old man to his grave. There is an hourglass on a wall behind the old man. paper etching dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings. old man. hourglass

Line drawing titled 'La Grant Danse Macabre' from one of the earliest printed books. Death is depicted caring off the printers and the booksellers themselves. Dated 14th Century

The Pond Fisherman. 19th century copy of woodcut in Cosmographie Universelle dated 1549

Six of spades: Carpentor.. 1702. Parsons, William Barclay, 1859-1932. Prints, Playing cards. Rare Book Division

Nieuweveen, Jacobus van, Luyken, Jan, Amsterdam, Two people by a flower pot on a pedestal, verso center bottom - stamped, A flower in a flower pot on a pedestal. A wind blows and makes the flower lose its petals. On the pedestal the words 'Sic se Habet Vita'. Two men point to the flower and discuss the transience of life., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, height 92 mm, width 80 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1649-04-16 - 1712-04-05, print maker, printmaker, 1699 - 1699, paper, papier, etching, etchings, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, printer, drukker, bookseller

Brass smith, 16th Century, historical illustration

'St Jerome in his Study', 1514 (1906). Artist: Albrecht Durer.

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler

Duin landscape with a woman, bent over a basket, Gillis van Scheyndel (I), After Jan Porcellis, 1603 - 1653 print North Netherlands paper etching dune coast. container made of plant material other than wood: basket

Instrument of mathematical precision for executing portraits. Facsimile after a wood engraving by Albert Durer, "Institutionum Geometricarum Libri Quatuor", 1535. Sciences & Lettres au Moyen Age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877.

17th century engraved illustration from a collection of proverbs. Paris 1657-1663. By Jacques Lagniet (1620 - 1675); French engraver. From him many socially critical engravings and mockery pictures such as his sometimes grotesque and fantastic illustrations for a collection of well-known proverbs from the year 1657 come.

A tooth-drawer using pincers to extract a tooth from an old woman, her husband agonizingly observes the situation. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.

Imagination of the proverb 'Consider before you begin' Cartoon on the Arminians, 1618 Versint eer ghy beghint (title on object), Moralistic performance that is sometimes interpreted as a cartoon on the Arminians in 1618. The inscription in the middle 'Versint eer ghy beghint' better indicates the subject of the performance. Despite the warnings of an old man, a young man dives into the wide opening of a large horn. However, he then gets stuck in the narrow end. On the right, a smiling jester looks out the window and expresses the moral of the print, the saying 'Think before you begin' or 'He works his way up.', anonymous, 1618, paper, engraving, h 288 mm × w 328 mm

Officers drinking and smoking clay pipes. In left background is curtained bed. From engraving entitled 'Le Tabac' by Abraham Bosse (1602-1726) after Jean de Saint-Igny (d1649)

Mirror maker. 16th cent. German engraving.

Allegory of geometry, Bernard Picart, 1683 - 1733 print Landscape with Geometria, the female personification of geometry. She measures a globe with her passer. In the background putti that perform various construction work. paper engraving / etching globe. 'Geometry' (~ quadrivium); 'Geometry' (Ripa)

Amsterdam, Humbert, Pierre, Title page for: William Scherlock and David Mazel, De la mort, 1712, Death accompanies old man, verso - stamped, Death as a skeleton with scythe accompanies an old man with beard and walking stick. At the top a drapery with four-line French text., print, engraving, title page, prints, engravings, height 173 mm, width 98 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1712, paper, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

The Little Buffoon, 1542. Hans Sebald Beham (German, 1500-1550). Engraving;

A woodcut engraving depicting a woman weaving. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) a German artist and printmaker. Dated 16th century

GRABADO "LAS CLAVES DEL ALQUIMISTA" S XVII.

Parisian cafZ, c. 1720 (Regency period), 18th century engraving by Picart

Shooting crossbows at the butts. At one time archery practice was compulsory for adult males, serving the dual purpose of providing defenders in the event of the siege of a town or city, as well a reservoir of skilled archers during time of war. Woodcut.

Thirty-four Ornamental Letters (A, C, D, I). Germany, early 16th century, printed 1530. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut

Bathing scene around 1300, A knightly guest is entertained and bathed by the lady of the castle, Fashion history, Costume history, Historical, Digital reproduction of an original 19th century pattern

Gypsy who used wash his hands in molten lead. Engraving, 19th century.

Illustration depicting a man raising a bucket of water using a tread wheel. Dated 17th century

Death comes to the potter, Todten-Tantz after Beck, Nöller a. other painters by Georg Max. Theodor Goetz, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Chalon, Christina, Leiden, Mare, Pieter de, Churning man, verso middle - stamped, A farmer stands next to a churn and churns the milk. A milk jug stands next to the barrel., print, engraving, prints, engravings, width 67 mm, height, 92 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1758-01-30 - 1796-06, print maker, printmaker, 1777 - 1779, paper, papier, etching, etchings, 1748 - 1808-12-13, intermediary draughtsman

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned sic since my Deliverance out of Captivity' is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier on the South Asian island now best known as Sri Lanka and provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Ceylonese life. Knox spent 19 years on Ceylon after being taken prisoner by King Rajasimha II.

Hut in Francia (France), with a Gaul under Roman Rule circa 2nd century AD

Modern period. Europe. 16th century. Two musics. Engraving by Jost Amman (1539-1591). Later colouration.

Goldbeaters preparing a thin duplex sheet of silver and gold to be cut into strips and used to cover thread to produce 'spun' gold. From 'De la pirotechnia' by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540).

Leiden, Vliet, Jan Georg van, Occupations, Baker, verso lower left - stamped, print, prints, height 210 mm, width 162 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1610 - 1668, print maker, printmaker, 1635 - 1635, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process)

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