Grinding Collection

Costumes de Différents Pays, Habitants de la Guyane Fabricant le Rocou, c1797
Costumes de Differents Pays, Habitants de la Guyane Fabricant le Rocou, c1797

Model of a Woman Grinding Grain, 2134-1991 B.C.. Creator: Unknown
Model of a Woman Grinding Grain, 2134-1991 B.C

Salt mill at the harbor of Trapani, 1778. Creator: Louis Ducros
Salt mill at the harbor of Trapani, 1778. Drawing from the album Voyage to Italy, Sicily and Malta

The scissors, 1700-1800. Creator: W. Barthautz
The scissors, 1700-1800

The Painter's Studio, c.1647-c.1650. Creator: Adriaen van Ostade
The Painter's Studio, c.1647-c.1650. The artist uses a mahlstick to support his hand while he paints, while an assistant grinds pigment to make paint

Grinding sugar-cane at the school's sugar-hill, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Grinding sugar-cane at the school's sugar-hill, 1904

Workers grinding and processing the ink used to print paper money at the Bureau of Engrav... c1890
Workers grinding and processing the ink used to print paper money at the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, c1890. Photograph shows men working on machines powered by steam driven belts

Pictura: allegory of painting, with a nude woman at center grinding pigments, two p... ca. 1610-50. Creator: Anon
Pictura: allegory of painting, with a nude woman at center grinding pigments, two putti drawing at lower left, ca. 1610-50

Meat Grinder, c. 1936. Creator: Paul Ward
Meat Grinder, c. 1936

Knives, Scissors, and Rotors to Grind, January 1795. Creator: Giovanni Vendramini
Knives, Scissors, and Rotors to Grind, January 1795

Grinding wokas-Klamath, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Grinding wokas-Klamath, c1923. Klamath woman kneeling, preparing wokas on stone slab

Maricopa Woman Mealing, 1907 Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Maricopa Woman Mealing, 1907 Photograph shows a maricopa woman kneeling, grinding meal

The mealing trough-Hopi, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The mealing trough-Hopi, c1906. Photo shows four young Hopi Indian women grinding grain

The International Exhibition: Samuelson's machinery for crushing and grinding linseed... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Samuelson's machinery for crushing and grinding linseed, extracting the oil, and making oilcake, 1862

Grinding medicine-Zuni, c1903. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Grinding medicine-Zuni, c1903. Zuni man lying on blanket grinding medicine

Tachibana no Hayanari preparing to make the first writing of the New Year, 1823

Courtesan Painting a Screen, from a series of 12 erotic prints, c. 1711

Pestling the Paddy, n. d. Creator: Robert Frederick Blum
Pestling the Paddy, n.d

Villagers Grinding Corn, page from the Fraser Album, Company School, c. 1820

Horse-driven Mill (Le manege), probably 1869. Creator: Alphonse Legros
Horse-driven Mill (Le manege), probably 1869

Horse-driven Mill (Le manege). Creator: Alphonse Legros
Horse-driven Mill (Le manege)

Interior of a Hopi Dwelling, late 19th-early 20th century. Creator: William H. Jackson
Interior of a Hopi Dwelling, late 19th-early 20th century

A Travelling Knife-grinder at a Cottage Door, 1787. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
A Travelling Knife-grinder at a Cottage Door, 1787

Pictura: allegory of painting, with a nude woman at center grinding pigments, two putti drawing at lower right, ca. 1610-50. After Peter Paul Rubens

Musee du Louvre;collection des dessins, Le Remouleur
Musee du Louvre; collection des dessins, Le Remouleur, par Watteau; from Magasin Pittoresque, ca. 1852

[Women Grinding Paint, Calcutta], ca. 1845. Creator: Unknown
Women Grinding Paint, Calcutta, ca. 1845

[Woman in Apron and Bonnet Grinding Coffee in Kitchen Setting], 1850s. Creator: Unknown
[Woman in Apron and Bonnet Grinding Coffee in Kitchen Setting], 1850s

Two Women Grinding at a Hand Mill, 1902. Creator: John Fulleylove
Two Women Grinding at a Hand Mill, 1902. From " The Holy Land", painted by John Fulleylove, R.I. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1902]

Newton Invents a New Telescope, c1934. Illustration showing Isaac Newton (1643-1727) with his invention, the Newtonian telescope, and assistant grinding lenses

Knives or Cisers to Grinde, Cries of London, (1688?)
Knives or Cisers to Grinde. A knives and scissors grinder who is also smoking a pipe. The man is sharpening an item on his grinder which he is operating by foot. Ffrom Cries of London, (1688?)

Knives or Cisers to Grind, Cries of London, (c1688?)
Knives or Cisers to Grind. A knife and scissors grinder at work, with his grindstones on a barrow improvised to transport them. He is smoking as he works. From Cries of London, c1750

Knives to Grind, Cries of London, c1750. Artist: JM
Knives to Grind, c1750. A knife grinder at work, with his grindstones on a barrow improvised to transport them. From Cries of London, c1750

Knives or Sizars to Grind, Cries of London, (c1688?)
Knives or Sizars to Grind. A knife and scissors grinder at work, with his grindstones on a barrow improvised to transport them. He is smoking as he works. From Cries of London, c1750

The Knife Grinder, from Four and Twenty Toilers, pub. 1900 (colour lithograph). accompanies verse by E.V. Lucas (Edward Verrall Lucas) (1868 – 1938);

Grinding two metre saw blades at Slack Sellars & Co Ltd, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. To produce a smooth finish to the saw blades, the faces are ground on giant revolving grinding stones

Grinding the flashing from a casting, AT Green & Sons Ltd, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. The flashing is the excess steel which is left on the casting when the steel sets

Grinding steel bars at J Beardshaw & Sons, Sheffield, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Grinding steel bars at J Beardshaw & Sons, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. The steel bars are ground to produce an accurate diameter on a Cincinnati grinding machine

Grinding (sharpening), Everlast Garden tools, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1965. Artist
Grinding (sharpening), Everlast Garden tools, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1965

Gipsy knife-grinder, Horley, Surrey, 1963

Gipsy knife-grinder with his handcart, Horley, Surrey, 1964

Gypsy knife-grinder, Horley, Surrey, 1964

Aesculapius, 1852. Artist: John Leech
Aesculapius, 1852. From The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert A A Beckett, illustrated by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1852]

Hopi Indian women grinding corn meal, Walpi, Arizona, 1912. Artist: Robert Wilson Shufeldt
Hopi Indian women grinding corn meal, Walpi, Arizona, 1912. The distinctive hairstyle of the woman on the right identifies her as being unmarried. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. II

A hut of the Pima Indians of Arizona, 1912. Artist: CC Pierce & Co
A hut of the Pima Indians of Arizona, 1912. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. II. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1912]

Powder production in the Sierra de Tardienta, 1814 (1939). Artist: Francisco Goya
Powder production in the Sierra de Tardienta, 1814 (1939). From Les Chefs-D Ouevre Du Musee Du Prado. [Les Editions Holbein, Switzerland, 1939]

Kenyah women pounding rice, Sarawak, 1902. Artist: Dr Charles Hose
Kenyah women pounding rice, Sarawak, 1902. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. I. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1902]

Grinding sugar cane, Brazil, late 19th or early 20th century

Steel manufactures of Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1866. Artist: M Jackson
Steel manufactures of Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1866. The Hull, or workshop, of the razor grinder, with the use of the fan. A print from The Illustrated London News, 20 January 1866

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