Distaff Collection

A young woman spinning wool with a distaff, c1640-1680. Creator: Nicolaes Berchem
A young woman spinning wool with a distaff, c1640-1680

Old Woman at the Spinning Wheel, 1846. Creator: Edla Jansson-Blommer
Old Woman at the Spinning Wheel, 1846

"Shepherd Seated at a Fountain, " facsimile of an etching by Berghem, 1870. To those admirers of Nicholas Berghem's landscapes, &c

An old woman with a distaff, c1740s. Creator: Giuseppe Nogari
An old woman with a distaff, c1740s

Keriva woman, c1750-1816. Creator: Per Hillestrom
Keriva woman, c1750-1816. Textiles worker (from Kerava in Finland?)

Emblematic Group of Figures, by Mr. John Thomas, over the Principal Entrance of the Leeds Townhall, 1858. Bas-relief by...Mr. Thomas of London, the sculptor of the Houses of Parliament

"Spending a Sou" - painted by Miss Rebecca Solomons - from the Winter Exhibition, French Gallery, 1858. Engraving after a painting

Traditional costumes of the island of Gozo, 1778. Creator: Louis Ducros
Traditional costumes of the island of Gozo, 1778. Drawing from the album Voyage to Italy, Sicily and Malta

Roman Peasants Going to Market, 1837. Creator: Jorgen Sonne
Roman Peasants Going to Market, 1837

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 13ème arrondissement : Vertus civiques
Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 13eme arrondissement : Vertus civiques. 1878. Sketch for interior of reception hall for marriages. Civic virtues: women breastfeeding and spinning

Fileuse sur les rochers à Douarnenez, c.1870. Creator: Jules Breton
Fileuse sur les rochers a Douarnenez, c.1870. Woman spinning near Finistere in Brittany. A young peasant woman seen from back sitting on the rocks looks far left towards the ocean

Portrait of a woman holding a distaff (around 1740), c1740. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of a woman holding a distaff (around 1740), c1740

Girl seated on a rock holding a distaff, ca. 1800-1899. Creator: Anon
Girl seated on a rock holding a distaff, ca. 1800-1899

Spindle-Spinning Wool Gathered from the Hedges, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Spindle-Spinning Wool Gathered from the Hedges, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Religious picture, England, 1634. Creator: Unknown
Religious picture, England, 1634. Pelican feeding her young with her own blood, Virgin and Child, Adam digging and Eve spinning, angel, animals and flowers

Fragment (Furnishing Fabric), France, c. 1800. Creator: Unknown
Fragment (Furnishing Fabric), France, c. 1800

La Danse Savoyarde ou La Lessive (Furnishing Fabric), France, c. 1790. The Savoy Dance or Laundry. Manufactured by Lecler Pere et fils

The Filatrice (The Spinner), 1850. Creator: Henry Kirke Brown
The Filatrice (The Spinner), 1850. Cast by the artists foundry

February from The Medallion Months, Flanders, before 1528. Creator: Unknown
February from The Medallion Months, Flanders, before 1528. Circle of Bernard Van Orley

The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887. Creator: Elihu Vedder
The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos weave stars into a magicl textile to control the destiny and lifespan of human beings

The Dance, c. 1750. Creator: Pietro Longhi
The Dance, c. 1750

Pastoral Landscape with Ruins, 1664. Creator: Adriaen van de Velde
Pastoral Landscape with Ruins, 1664

Scene from the Drama "Yuki-motsu-take Furisode Genji", December 1785
Scene from the Drama " Yuki-motsu-take Furisode Genji", December 1785

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework, 1557. Creator: Giuseppe Porta
Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework, 1557. From Giovanni Ostaus s, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557), a book on needlework

Gioco Delle Donne, E Sue Facende (Game of Wives, And Their Chores), 1654-1718
Gioco Delle Donne, E Sue Facende (Game of Wives [or Women], And Their Chores), 1654-1718. Board game: a woman spends all day doing housework, only to be beaten with a stick by her husband

A country woman sitting in landscape with two boys at her side, 1729-40. La Vie champestre

Rosaspinas drawing academy, 1811. Creator: Giulio Tomba
Rosaspinas drawing academy, 1811. Class of male students sketching seated around a table with Italian artist Francesco Rosaspina at the head, with women merely permitted to watch

A Woman Spinning, Plate 4 from Five Feminine Occupations, ca. 1640-57

Young woman spinning thread for an arrow, 1686-1741. Creator: Francois de Poilly
Young woman spinning thread for an arrow, 1686-1741

View of the Arch of Janus, with shepherds and goats in the foreground, 1795-1800

La Bergere Laborieuse, 18th century. Creator: Jean Michel Liotard
La Bergere Laborieuse, 18th century. [The shepherdess at work]

The Angry Wife, c. 1495 / 1503. Creator: Israhel van Meckenem
The Angry Wife, c. 1495/1503

Woman and Child with Distaff. Creator: Jacopo de Barbari
Woman and Child with Distaff

The Dissolute Household. Creator: Pieter Balten
The Dissolute Household

Coat of Arms with Tumbling Boy, c. 1480 / 1490. Creator: Israhel van Meckenem
Coat of Arms with Tumbling Boy, c. 1480/1490

The Visit to the Spinner, c. 1495 / 1503. Creator: Israhel van Meckenem
The Visit to the Spinner, c. 1495/1503

Peasant Interior, c. 1645. Creator: Louis Le Nain
Peasant Interior, c. 1645

Saying Grace, c. 1650 / 1655. Creator: Frans van Mieris
Saying Grace, c. 1650/1655

Adam Ploughing from the Dance of Death, 1651. Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Adam Ploughing from the Dance of Death, 1651

Woman Spinning. n. d. Creator: Thomas Wijck
Woman Spinning.n.d

Le Florentin ala chasse, ca. 1654. Creator: Stefano della Bella
Le Florentin a la chasse, ca. 1654

Spinner from the Auvergne, 1830-99. Creator: Unknown
Spinner from the Auvergne, 1830-99

The Three Fates: Lachesis, Atropos and Klotho, 1513. Creator: Hans Baldung
The Three Fates: Lachesis, Atropos and Klotho, 1513

Plate 44 from Los Caprichos : They spin finely (Hilan delgado. ), 1799
Plate 44 from Los Caprichos : They spin finely (Hilan delgado.), 1799

The Old Working Woman, ca. 1757-1804. Creator: Pietro Jacopo Palmieri
The Old Working Woman, ca. 1757-1804

Child Birth, from The Course of Human Life, 1570. Creator: Pieter Furnius
Child Birth, from The Course of Human Life, 1570

The Music Master, 1855. Creator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Music Master, 1855. [The Maids of Elven-Mere]

Saint Distaffs Day, England, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1890

February - spinning, late 15th century, (1939). Creator: Robinet Testard
February - spinning, late 15th century, (1939). A man takes off his boots to warm his feet by the fire as a woman uses a wheel to spin thread

Adam digging, from The Dance of Death, ca. 1526, published 1538

Girl with a Distaff, c1873. Artist: Matthijs Maris
Girl with a Distaff, c1873. From The Studio Volume 77. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1919]

Costume of the commonality, 14th century, (1910). Every-day dress from the reign of Edward II ((1307-1327), featuring the pointed boot in vogue during the period

Young girls, 13th century, (1910). The robes are looped up in festoons to prevent them trailing on the ground

Inca types, Peru, 19th century. Artist: Edouard Riou
Inca types, Peru, 19th century. Portraits of Incas from the genealogical tree, or of imperial descent

Madonna and Child with a Cross-shaped Distaff, 1570s. Artist: Luis de Morales
Madonna and Child with a Cross-shaped Distaff, 1570s. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

Peasant cottage interior, possibly Netherlands or northern France, 17th century. The husband, wearing wooden clogs, snoozes in the chimney corner by the fire on which cooking would be done

Detail of a gravestone from Asia Minor, 1st century
Detail of a gravestone from Asia Minor, of a man with a pruning knife, and a woman with a mirror, spindle, and distaff, 1st century

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