Barrels Collection

The Hireling Shepherd, 1851, (1948). Creator: William Holman Hunt
The Hireling Shepherd, 1851, (1948). A shepherd neglects his flock and woos a young woman with a lamb on her lap. Behind them, two bloated sheep lie on the ground poisoned by the corn

The Great Lozenge-Maker. A Hint to Paterfamilias, 1858. Artist: John Leech
The Great Lozenge-Maker. A Hint to Paterfamilias, 1858. This cartoon indicts the sweet-making industry

Barrels of molasses, West India Docks, London, 1926-1927. Artist: Langfier Photo
Barrels of molasses, West India Docks, London, 1926-1927. Illustration from Wonderful London, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, Volume I, published by Amalgamated Press, (London, 1926-1927)

The Scullery Maid, c. 1738. Creator: Jean-Simeon Chardin
The Scullery Maid, c. 1738

The Orangerie - or - The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of Planting, 1796
The Orangerie - or - The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of Planting, published 1796 (hand-coloured engraving)

Coopering, making whiskey barrels at Wiley & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. The photograph shows a worker from the bonded warehouse hammering the rings into place on a barrel

General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, 1782. British soldier and politician

The Antwerp Shipyard, 1650. Creator: Bonaventura Peeters I
The Antwerp Shipyard, 1650. Port city on the River Scheldt

Card Players and Carousers, early 17th century. Creator: Adriaen Brouwer
Card Players and Carousers, early 17th century

Village Fair, early 17th century. Creator: Adriaen Brouwer
Village Fair, early 17th century. Rowdy scene with villagers drinking, dancing, playing cards, vomiting and defecating

Haycart, c1860-1900. Creator: Jan Stobbaerts
Haycart, c1860-1900

The Autumn Campaign: canteen, 1872. Creator: Unknown
The Autumn Campaign: canteen, 1872

Billy Hollowell on a Norton OHV motorbike, 1922. At the French Grand Prix. 1922 was the first year of production for Norton OHVs

A Berliet lorry, 1906. The lorry passes a horse drawn carriage and frightens the horse. It rears up much to the annoyance of the driver. The lorry driver looks at him with a smirk on his face

1914 Albion A14 Dray. In 1958, Albion Motors rescued this lorry from a Manchester breakers yard and presented it to the then Montagu Motor Museum

Christ Blessing Saint Hedwig; Saint Hedwig Washing Her Grandson's Face, 1353

A Man Making a Barrel: Zodiacal Sign of Virgo; Missal, between about 1389 and 1400

Calendar Page for September: Making Wine: Libra; Book of Hours, about 1450-1455

A Woman Greating a Man before her House in which a Man and A Woman Lay in Bed: Two Men Making Casks: A Man with Pigs and a Couple; Fables: Exemplum de Tribus Latronibus

Jupiter with a Crown and a Scepter at the Threshold of a House; Roman de la Rose, about 1405

September Calendar Page: Making Wine: Libra; Book of Hours, about 1440-1450

The Autumn Campaign: Arrival of Volunteers in the Southern Camp on Saturday last - the London Scottish breaking off to their tents, 1872. British Army manoeuvres

Coopers - Making Tubs, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Coopers - Making Tubs, about 1873-1883

Winding Off the Silk From the Cocoons, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Winding Off the Silk From the Cocoons, about 1873-1883

Peeling off the bark... about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Peeling off the bark... about 1873-1883

Washing the Rice, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Washing the Rice, about 1873-1883

The Old Oaken Bucket. about 1870-1880. Creator: Unknown
The Old Oaken Bucket. about 1870-1880

Making Mats of Straw, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Making Mats of Straw, about 1873-1883

Bathing, about 1873-1883. Creator: Shinichi Suzuki I
Bathing, about 1873-1883. One woman sits inside a large round wooden tub while two other women sit nearby holding supplies

Unidentified man with moustache making pasta, three boys either eating it or helping him make it, 1865-1870

Pack Pony, 1866-1867. Creator: Felice Beato
Pack Pony, 1866-1867. Horse with attendant

Preparation of the Rice, about 1868. Creator: Felice Beato
Preparation of the Rice, about 1868. A group of men and women are processing rice from a harvest

October Calendar Page; Treading Grapes; Scorpio; Book of Hours, early 16th century

Saint Nicholas; Book of Hours, about 1410. Creator: Unknown
Saint Nicholas; Book of Hours, about 1410. The saint resurrecting three youths who had been murdered and pickled in a barrel. Follower of the Egerton Master

Relief of Paris: arrival of a vessel in the Seine with provisions from London, 1871

Relief of Paris: the rush to the provision shops, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Relief of Paris: the rush to the provision shops, 1871. Franco-Prussian War

The meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great, 1784. Creator: Quirin Mark
The meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great, 1784

Goree Docks, Liverpool, c1830s. Creator: David Cox the Elder
Goree Docks, Liverpool, c1830s

The Violinist, 1809. Creator: Alexander Lauréus
The Violinist, 1809

A Monk in a Ruin which Has Been Made into a Wine Cellar, 1823. Creator: Alexander Lauréus
A Monk in a Ruin which Has Been Made into a Wine Cellar, 1823

Winter Fishing; Icefishing, 1900. Creator: Juho Rissanen
Winter Fishing; Icefishing, 1900

Serenade on the embankment, 1887. Creator: Albert Edelfelt
Serenade on the embankment, 1887

Fair, late 19th-early 20th century. Creator: Sergey Ivanovich Svetoslavsky
Fair, late 19th-early 20th century

Crete Haapasalo Playing the Kantele in a Peasant Cottage, 1868

Sketches from Ireland: opening casks of arms at the Dublin Steam-Ship Company's stores, North Wall, 1870

Seizure of casks, with arms and ammunition, on board the Dublin steamer Windsor, 1870

Where machinery is paramount: filling and weighing packages of lard
Untouched by Hand: a Model Lard Factory - Where machinery is paramount: filling and weighing packages of lard, 1909. Production...in the modern factory of the well-known Manchester firm of N

"Amongst the Pets, " by J. W. Bottomley, in the Royal Academy exhibition, 1870

Rue Mondetour, de la rue Rambuteau, 1860s-70s. Creator: Charles Marville
Rue Mondetour, de la rue Rambuteau, 1860s-70s

Country Inn, 1787. 1787. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Country Inn, 1787

Barrel of Gatling gun, c1872. Creator: Unknown
Barrel of Gatling gun, c1872. Diagram detail of the cyclic multi-barrel Gatling gun, an early form of rotary cannon

New Orleans, 1872. Creator: DG Thompson
New Orleans, 1872. Goods on the quayside by the Mississippi River in the port of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The Wine Commission, mid 19th century. Creator: AH Payne
The Wine Commission, mid 19th century. Men seated round barrels in a cellar, tasting wine. Engraving after a painting

Needlework pattern, c.1885. Creator: A Todt
Needlework pattern, c.1885

Vaterland Departs, 5/26/14. Creator: Bain News Service
Vaterland Departs, 5/26/14

The Volunteer Review at Portsmouth: the 1st Hants Engineer Volunteers constructing a barrel-pier bridge for the sortie at Hilsea Lines, 1868

Le Vigneron (The winegrower), 1749-1797. Creator: Jean-Charles Levasseur
Le Vigneron (The winegrower), 1749-1797

The Abyssinian Expedition: a sketch on the shore at Zulla, Annesley Bay, 1868. Engraving of a sketch by Captain F. F

Deptford Dockyard, 1869. Creator: Unknown
Deptford Dockyard, [London], 1869

"In Commemoration of the Duke's Birthday", 1869. Creator: Unknown
"In Commemoration of the Duke's Birthday", 1869. The incident which Mr

Smokers in an Interior, 1637. Creator: David Teniers II
Smokers in an Interior, 1637. Three men in an interior seated around a barrel that acts as a temporary table

The smoker and the drinker, 1650?. Creator: Adriaen van Ostade
The smoker and the drinker, 1650?

The quack, 1648. Creator: Adriaen van Ostade
The quack, 1648. A quack doctor is selling his medicines in a tent, probably part of a village fair

Farm hands, 1922. Creator: Edmund Blampied
Farm hands, 1922. There is an element of drudgery in the expressions and absolute profiles of the farm hands of the title, who are tipping vegetables into a barrel

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the second buoy, marking the exact place where the cable was grappled, Aug. 8, 1865

Fete given by the Prince Imperial to poor children of Paris in the Tuileries Gardens, 1864

Sketches from New York: entertainment in a lager beer saloon, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from New York: entertainment in a lager beer saloon, 1864

German Sanitary sign near Lodz, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German Sanitary sign near Lodz, between 1914 and c1915. A sign in German "Trinkwasser" (drinking water) next to a pump in Lodz, Poland during World War I

The Cotton Famine: shop for mill-hands at Mr. Birley's mill, Manchester, 1862. Charity for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers. Mr

Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. Pressing fish, 1900. Creator: Unknown
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. Pressing fish, 1900. Postcard from a collection of 103 postcards of the city of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in the early 20th century

Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. Salting shed, 1900. Creator: Unknown
Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. Salting shed, 1900. Postcard from a collection of 103 postcards of the city of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in the early 20th century

French "42 cm. gun, between 1914 and c1915. Shows a barrel mounted on a small cart, during World War I

In the Vladivostok port, 1929. Creator: Unknown
In the Vladivostok port, 1929

View of the Custom House on the River Thames in London, 1753. Creator: Anon
View of the Custom House on the River Thames in London, 1753. A View of the Custom House with part of the Tower [of London] taken from the River Thames

The Paris Wine Market: the Brandy Quarter, Rues de Languedoc and de la Cote d'Or, the Cellars, 1860. Engraving after a sketch by M. Lancelot

Corner of a backyard. Creator: Unknown
Corner of a backyard

Costumes de Différent Pays, Homme des Landes de Bordeaux Mettant ses Échasses
Costumes de Different Pays, Homme des Landes de Bordeaux Mettant ses Echasses, c1797

Close No. 11 Bridgegate (#44), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
Close No. 11 Bridgegate (#44), Printed 1900

Sketches in Madrid: the Water Supply of Madrid, 1876. Creator: C.R
Sketches in Madrid: the Water Supply of Madrid, 1876

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Guy Fawkes in the cellar of the Palace of Westminster, 1605, (2023)

Martyrdom of a Christian saint, 1497. Creator: Master of Anne de Bretagne
Martyrdom of a Christian saints, 1497. Illustration from a Book of Hours. Latin text: Initium sancti evangelii secundum Johannem

The Concert at Tre Byttor (The Three Barrels tavern in Stockholm's Djurgården Park)
The Concert at Tre Byttor (The Three Barrels tavern in Stockholm's Djurgarden Park). Scene from Fredman's Epistle 51, Movitz blaste en Concert ("Movitz blew a concert"), 1860

King Street, City (#22), Printed 1900. Creator: Thomas Annan
King Street, City (#22), Printed 1900

The Little Brewery, 1890. Creator: Anders Leonard Zorn
The Little Brewery, 1890

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