Anvil Collection (page 3)

Trotting Cracks at the Forge, 1869. Artist: Currier and Ives
Trotting Cracks at the Forge, 1869

The village blacksmith

Poster for an arts and crafts exhibition, 1910. Artist: Yakov Ponomarenko
Poster for an arts and crafts exhibition, 1910. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

The Smithy, 1901. Artist: Waldemar Titzenthaler
The Smithy, 1901. Illustration from The Process Year Book, A Review of the Illustrated Arts. published by AW Penrose & Co, (London, 1901)

Iron foundry, 1802. At top are two views of a furnace, on the right showing the operation of the bellows which supplied the draught and, on the left, smelted metal being poured into moulds

Cutlery-making, c1750s. Plate taken from volume II of Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne de Science, des Arts et des Metiers

Roman tombstone of a Smith, pictured with his tools
Roman tombstone of a Smith with hammer, tongs and anvil, from Dringhouses, York. In the collection of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Museum, York

The spur maker, c1559-1591. Artist: Jost Amman
The spur maker, c1559-1591. A craftsman talks to a customer while continuing to file a spur which is held in a vice. Behind him in his workshop a fire is burning in the furnace where he heats metal

Blacksmiths at work, 1715. Note the heavy leather aprons worn as protection from hot metal and charcoal. From Magia Naturalis by Johannes Baptista della Porta, originally published in Naples in 1558

Artists reconstruction of a late Iron Age forge, 1890. In the centre a smith is hammering iron, while in the background another is working at the furnace

Whos to Blame?, 1875. Artist: Joseph Swain
Whos to Blame?, 1875. Vulcan makes no excuse to Britannia as she shows him the bill for the loss of the iron-clad man-of-war vessel that sank after a collision off the coast of Ireland

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