Pushing Collection (#4)

The Capstan, 1926. Artist: Arthur Briscoe
The Capstan, 1926. From The Studio Volume 91. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1926]

Street Vendor, Havana, Cuba, 1938. [E. C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, U. S. A. 1938]

Woman and children in a pushchair, 1937. From Verve - Vol.1, No. 1, December 1937. [Verve, France, 1937]

King Alfred Inciting The Anglo Saxons, (1878). Artist: Herbert Bourne
King Alfred Inciting The Anglo Saxons, (1878). After George Frederic Watts (1817?1904). From Pictures and Royal Portraits Illustrative of English and Scottish History, by Thomas Archer

L Escarpolette, c1710. Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau
L Escarpolette, c1710. From The Studio Volume 48. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1909-10]

The little mother, Regents Park, London, c1900 (1901). From Living London, Vol. 1, edited by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1901]

An exciting game: pupils of Christs Hospital school, City of London, c1900 (1911). Artist: RW Thomas
An exciting game: pupils of Christs Hospital school, City of London, c1900 (1911). Founded in 1552, Christs Hospital was the result of the vision of King Edward VI (1537-1553)

Horses in a Stable, 1791. Artist: George Morland
Horses in a Stable, 1791. Painting held at the Victoria And Albert Museum, London. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXXII. [The Connoisseur Ltd. London, 1928]

Busy Scenes in Benghazi, 1943. Here we see stores being unloaded for allied troops. During the Battle of El Alamein 66 miles from Alexandria, Egypt, British troops led by General Bernard Montgomery

Bill Bailey postcard. Bill Bailey, Won t You Please Come Home? was a popular song published in 1902
Bill Bailey postcard. Bill Bailey, Won t You Please Come Home was a popular song published in 1902

Chinese family on a cart, 1936. Artist: Sport & General
Chinese family on a cart, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Primitive methods in the worlds richest tin district, Taiping, China, 1936. Artist: Ewing Galloway
Primitive methods in the worlds richest tin district, Taiping, China, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Seaman Torpedoman, 1937. Artist: WA & AC Churchman
Seaman Torpedoman, 1937. Churchmans Cigarette Series, The Navy At Work

A street in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, 1924-1926. Artist: Thomas Kent
A street in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, 1924-1926. A print from Hutchinsons Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, volume III, 1924-1926

Black Rock Castle, near Cork, c19th century

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Christians on Mt Ararat, 1495-1497, (1936). Artist: Albrecht Durer
Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Christians on Mt Ararat, 1495-1497, (1936). A print from Durer, Und Seine Zeit, by Wilhelm Waetzoldt, Grosse Phaidon Ausgabe, 1936

Quartz Mining, California, 1859. Artist: Gustave Adolphe Chassevent-Bacques
Quartz Mining, California, 1859. A print from le Tour du Monde, 1859

Reaping, carrying, and carting, c1300-1340, (c1900-1920). Scenes from the Luttrell Psalter. A print from Art History and Literature Illustrations, by Jessie Noakes, Virtue and Co, (London, c1900-1920)

Louis XV at the Tuileries, Paris, 18th century, (1885). Artist: Bonnardot
Louis XV at the Tuileries, Paris, 18th century, (1885). Louis (1710-1774) as a child being shown around the gardens at the Tuileries. He became king at the age of five

Ground crew attending to a French Spad on a snow-covered field, 1918, (1926). Artist: Francois Flameng
Ground crew attending to a French Spad on a snow-covered field, 1918, (1926)

Winter, 17th century. Artist: Esaias van de Velde
Winter, 17th century. Found in the collection of the State M Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania

Two flying putti, study, 1740s. Artist: Pompeo Batoni
Two flying putti, study, 1740s. Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo (1708-1787). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

View of Venice, 18th century. Artist: Canaletto
View of Venice. Canaletto (1697-1768). Italy, Venetian School. Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Socialist Emulation, 1929. Artist: Dmitriy Stakhievich Moor
The Socialist Emulation, 1929

Marriage of the son of the Bey of Tunis, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 26th June 1903

Louis Mountbatten wheels his cousin, the Prince of Wales, at a gymkhana in Malta, 1936
Lord Louis Mountbatten wheels his cousin, the Prince of Wales, at a gymkhana in Malta, c1930s. The future King Edward VIII enjoys a ride

Modes of transport in Japan, wheelbarrow, 19th century. French advertising for Liebig Extract of Meat. Private Collection

Sisyphus pushing his stone up a mountain, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
Sisyphus Pushing His Stone up a Mountain, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

French refugees returning home after the fall of France to the Germans, Paris, July 1940

The Drunkard Pushed into the Pigsty, 1564-1638. Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Drunkard Pushed into the Pigsty, 1564-1638. From a private collection

Jesus on the Road to Calvary, late 15th / early 16th century. Artist: Michael Sittow
Jesus on the Road to Calvary, late 15th/early 16th century. Jesus, wearing the crown of thorns carrying his cross, urged on by a soldier. From the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

Theatre, late 16th / early 17th century. Artist: Jacques Bellange
Theatre, Bellange, Private Collection

In Battersea Park, 1911. An example of Darwinism in everday life. A nursemaid wheeling Master Jones, son of a famous cricketer, in his pram in Battersea Park, London

Natives of Chiloe, Patagonia, using a breast plough, 1839. From Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majestys Ships Adventure and Beagle (Vol I) by Philip Parker King. (London, 1839)

Seamen hauling a clinker-built dinghy up onto the shore, 1821. In this type of construction the planks of the vessel overlap the plank below and are fastened with clinched

Woman and boy drawing a corve containing 3-4 cwt of coal, Bolton, Lancashire, 1848. The woman wears a harness around her waist, passing between her legs and attached to a sledge by a chain

Woman and children coal putters, Mid and East Lothian, Scotland, 1848. Artist: J Christie
Woman and children coal putters, Mid and East Lothian, Scotland, 1848. From A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries by Matthias Dunn. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1848)

Boy putters moving coal in a narrow seam, Lancashire, England, 1848. From A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries by Matthias Dunn. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1848)

Boy pushing a truck loaded with coal from the coal face to the bottom of the pit shaft, c1848. On the right of the picture squats a smaller boy, the trapper

Dockers unloading sugar at West India Docks, London, 1889. Each docker wheels a trolley carrying a single sack which is recorded and marked

Dockers unloading tea in London Docks, 1889

The Big Push, 1916. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
The Big Push, 1916. A munitions worker with a trolley of new shells sending them of for a little trip to the continent (Europe) for use against the Germans

Miner pushing a trolley from a mine entrance, 1508. A miner wearing a traditional belted tunic and hood and collar, pushing a trolley filled with material. From Margarita Philosophica. (Basle, 1508)

Demonstration against Joseph Chamberlain, Ireland, 1899. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
Demonstration against Joseph Chamberlain, Ireland, 1899. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 31st December 1899

Merchant and his clerk at the dockside checking goods at a warehouse, 1823. From The Book of English Trades. (London, 1823)

Refining copper: removing cakes of copper from the crucible and quenching in a tub of water, 1556. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola. (Basel, 1556)

Smelting of copper, 1683
Smelting of copper: making liquation cakes by reducing copper in furnaces and alloying with lead, 1683. From an English edition of German metallurgist Lazarus Erckers Beschreibung allerfurnemisten

Mining, 1550. In the foreground ore is being broken up with a hammer, while in the background a man is wheeling a truck full of ore out of the mine on a track with wooden rails

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