Pressing Collection

Toriyama Shusaku Terutada Capturing a Pheasant with a Bow, 1866. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Toriyama Shusaku Terutada Capturing a Pheasant with a Bow, 1866. Series: Beauty and Valor in the Novel Suikoden

Ah! Tu veux te frotter à la presse!!, 1833. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ah! Tu veux te frotter a la presse!!, 1833. Printer, crushing colleague in printing press: Ah! You want to rub shoulders with the press!!'

Appuyez fort, ça fait rentrer la bosse... 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier
Appuyez fort, ca fait rentrer la bosse... 1838. Appuyez fort, ca fait rentrer la bosse - (L'enfant) Oh! la...oh!...la la la...la...C'est ca appuyez toujours il n'y a rien de meilleur

Harvester pressing grapes. Decorative painting for the Cafe de Paris, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Harvester pressing grapes. Decorative painting for the Cafe de Paris, c1900

Pa. German Block Used in Pressing and Steaming, c. 1938. Creator: Charlotte Angus
Pa. German Block Used in Pressing and Steaming, c. 1938

Les Travaux de la Manufacture (The Activities of the Factory) (Furnishing Fabric), France, 1783/84. Dyeing and printing of mass-produced textiles

Gold-blocking press, 1886. Machinery for bookbinding and printing. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, by Charles Tomlinson

Antoine Lumiere inspecting grape harvest, n.d.. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Antoine Lumiere inspecting grape harvest, n.d

Jupiter Pressing the Stormclouds, 1540-56. Creator: Leon Davent
Jupiter Pressing the Stormclouds, 1540-56

Tommorrow!, 1894. Creator: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
Tommorrow!, 1894

Les Travaux de la Manufacture (The Activities of the Factory) (Furnishing Fabric), France, 1783/84. Dyeing and printing of mass-produced textiles

The Holy Family with the Infant Christ Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist, 1485 / 1525
The Holy Family with the Infant Christ Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist, Southern Netherlands, 1485/1525

Carved Transom, c. 1937. Creator: Lawrence Flynn
Carved Transom, c. 1937

Pressing Iron, 1935 / 1942. Creator: Davids De Vault
Pressing Iron, 1935/1942

A Woman Ironing, 1873. Creator: Edgar Degas
A Woman Ironing, 1873

Cider Making, 1840-41. Creator: William Sidney Mount
Cider Making, 1840-41

The Washerwoman, late 19th century, (1965). Creator: Elena Dmitrievna Polenova
The Washerwoman, late 19th century, (1965). Study for Guests : woman using an iron to press clothes. Painting in a private collection

The Cider Press in the Middle Ages, c1934. Machine for extracting juice from apples, which is then fermented to make alcoholic cider

Pressing olives for oil extraction, Roman mosaic

Forging pins at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist
Forging pins at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. The hot steel is pressed between the two dies to form one part

Forge in action at Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Impression die forging pounds or presses metal between two dies (called tooling)

A Modern Oil Seed Crushing Plant, c1918, (1918). Artist: Gunning King
A Modern Oil Seed Crushing Plant, c1918, (1918). From Bibbys Annual 1918, edited by Joseph Bibby. [The Priory Publishing Press, Liverpool, 1917]

A woman work team on the Darjeeling highway, India, 1903. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
A woman work team on the Darjeeling highway, India, 1903. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Embossing press, 1886. Machine for producing a raised design on paper or card. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering

The Paper Maker, 16th century, (1870). Artist: Jost Amman
The Paper Maker, 16th century, (1870). An engraving from The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, (London, 1870)

October, wine-making, early 16th century. Grapes are pressed and wine is drawn from a barrel. Below: skittles with knuckle-bones. From a Flemish calendar in the collection of the British Library

Ironer, 1822. An Indian using an iron filled with hot charcoal to press clothes. (London, 1822)

Tailor, c1845. In the centre the tailor is using a flat iron to press a jacket on an ironing board. At the bottom is a sheep, source of the wool from which the cloth for the jacket was woven

Production of woollen cloth, 1750. Textile workers raising pile and pressing the wool in a screw press

Various stages in the production of tobacco, Virginia, USA, 1750. Male, female and child slaves rolling dried tobacco into ropes (background) and sorting leaves and pressing tobacco (foreground)

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