Industrious Collection

The Effects of Good Government in the Countryside, (detail), 1338-1340. Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti
The Effects of Good Government in the Countryside, (detail), 1338-1340. Ambrogio Lorenzetti frescoed the side walls of the Council Room (Sala dei Nove) of the City Hall (Palazzo Pubblico) of Siena

Two young women at a table, 1870. Creator: David Joseph Bles
Two young women at a table, 1870. One reads the Bible and does embroidery while the other teases a kitten with a yo-yo

Workroom in the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, 1904. Supervised by the Tsarina and the Dowager Empress, dressings and gowns are being produced to be sent to Russians wounded in the Russo-Japanese War

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

Allegory of Virtue and Vice, 1505. Creator: Lorenzo Lotto
Allegory of Virtue and Vice, 1505

Leisure and Labor, 1858. Creator: Francis Blackwell Mayer
Leisure and Labor, 1858

The Fellow Prentices at their Looms: Industry and Idleness, plate 1, September 30, 1747

The Industrious Prentice a Favorite, and Entrusted by his Master: Industry and Idleness, plate 4, September 30, 1747

Women spinning, weaving and sewing, mid-16th century. Creator: Master FG (Italian
Women spinning, weaving and sewing, mid-16th century

Labor, 1591. Creator: Raphael Sadeler
Labor, 1591

City Feast, 1747, (1925). Creator: William Hogarth
City Feast, 1747, (1925). Plate 8 of 12 plot-linked engravings created by William Hogarth in 1747 for series Industry and Idleness. The Industrious Prentice grown rich, & Sheriff of London

The industrious apprentice a favourite... plate IV of Industry and Idleness, 1747
The industrious apprentice a favourite, and entrusted by his master, plate IV of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the industrious apprentice stands with his master in the counting house

The fellow prentices at their looms, plate I of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the scene is a Spitalfields silk-weaving shop, London

Industry and Economy, 1794. Artist: William Ward
Industry and Economy, 1794; a successful merchant and his family pictured in a busy scene at Bell Wharf, London. Moral verses are contained in the lower margin

I the Industrious, 1903. Artist: John Hassall
I the Industrious, 1903. An initial letter I from a child alphabet. From An A.B.C. of Everyday People, by G. E. Farrow. [Dean & Son Limited, London, 1903]

Sketch for Industry and Idleness - Plate VI, 1747. Artist: William Hogarth
Sketch for Industry and Idleness - Plate VI, 1747. The industrious prentice out of his time and married to his masters daughter

Sketch for Industry and Idleness - Plate X, 1747. Artist: William Hogarth
Sketch for Industry and Idleness - Plate X, 1747. The industrious prentice alderman of London, the idle one brought before him and impeach d by his accomplice, plate X of Industry and Idleness

Sketch for Industry and Idleness - Plate VIII, 1747. Artist: William Hogarth
Sketch for Industry and Idleness - Plate VIII, 1747. The industrious prentice grown rich and sheriff of London. The scene is old Fishmongers Hall

The Industrious Prentice Lord-Mayor of London - Plate 12 from Industry and Idleness, 1747. Artist: William Hogarth
The Industrious Prentice Lord-Mayor of London - Plate 12 from Industry and Idleness, 1747. The industrious apprentice is drawn along Cheapside in his coach watched by Frederick

Sketch for Plate IV from Industry and Idleness, 1747. Artist: William Hogarth
Sketch for Plate IV from Industry and Idleness, 1747. The industrious apprentice stands with his master in the counting house. A porter enters, bearing rolls of cloth

The king rewarding the industrious haymaker near Weymouth, 1820. Artist: Thomas Kelly-Kenny
The king rewarding the industrious haymaker near Weymouth, 1820

The Four Seasons, Autumn, c1600. Artist: Abel Grimmer
The Four Seasons, Autumn, c1600. Located in the collection at, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Coiners at work, 1577. Artist: Ralph Holinshead
Coiners at work: Interior of a mint showing coins being stamped out and weighed to see they contain correct amount of metal, 1577

Phoenix Iron and Bridge Works, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 1873
Putting ball of white-hot iron into a rotary squeezer to remove the slag and cinder, and force the metal into the shape of a cylinder or bloom

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