Supervising Collection

Christ in the house of Mary and Martha, c1618-1622 Artist: Diego Velasquez
Kitchen Scene with Christ in the house of Mary and Martha, c1618-1622. Martha supervises work in the kitchen. A young servant girl, wearing an unhappy expression

English prisoners at work near Doberitz, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
English prisoners at work near Doberitz, between c1914 and c1915. English prisoners of war working in fields near the prisoner of war camp at Do¨beritz (now Dallgow-Do¨beritz)

A Glass of Lemonade, c1664. Creator: Gerard Terborch II
A Glass of Lemonade, c1664. An attentive young man tenderly mixes a "restorative" glass of lemonade for the young woman

Preparing Raw Fish, 18th century. Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro
Preparing Raw Fish, 18th century

Saint Charles Borromeo Supervising the Opening of a Crypt, c.1604. Creator: Cesare Nebbia
Saint Charles Borromeo Supervising the Opening of a Crypt, c.1604

Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. Our illustration was taken [at]...the Royal Laboratory Department...near the Plumstead marshes

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

Woman distributing work in a shoe factory, Lynn, Mass. (1895?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Woman distributing work in a shoe factory, Lynn, Mass. (1895?)

Hampton Institute, Va. 1899 - Classroom scenes - painting carriages, 1899 or 1900. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Hampton Institute, Va. 1899 - Classroom scenes - painting carriages, 1899 or 1900

The utmost precision is required of these operators who are cutting... Manchester, Conn. 1942. Creator: William Rittase
The utmost precision is required of these operators who are cutting and drilling parachute packs in an eastern factory, Manchester, Conn. Their work is under constant close supervision

Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base... 1942
Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base, supervises Chas. Potter, a NYA trainee from Michigan, Corpus Christi, Texas

Construction and Fortification of the Port of Livorno, c. 1614. Creator: Jacques Callot
Construction and Fortification of the Port of Livorno, c. 1614

A House of Refuge - In the Bath, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
A House of Refuge-In the Bath, 1872. From, " LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co. 72-78, Turnmill Street, E.C. 1872]

Newgate - Exercise Yard, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Newgate-Exercise Yard, 1872. From, " LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co. 72-78, Turnmill Street, E.C. 1872]

Front of the Foundling Hospital, c1876. Creator: Unknown
Front of the Foundling Hospital, c1876. Founded in 1739 by Thomas Coram, the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury, was a childrens home for the " education and maintenance of exposed

Building a Pyramid, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Building a Pyramid, 1890. Most Ancient Egyptian buildings were made of mud brick and limestone as readily available materials. Monumental buildings were made of post and lintel

Petit Courrier des Dames, 1857, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Petit Courrier des Dames, 1857, 1943. Hand coloured engraving from Petit Courrier des Dames, a weekly French fashion magazine published in Paris

Getting Electric Light ready -- H. M. S. Edinburgh, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Getting Electric Light ready -- H.M.S. Edinburgh, c1900. From " The British Navy - Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

En Route To The Outdoor Studio, 1901. Creator: Unknown
En Route To The Outdoor Studio, 1901. Transporting a large photographic plate. From " The Harmsworth Magazine, Volume VI

Lady Clerks Tabulating the American Census Returns, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Lady Clerks Tabulating the American Census Returns, 1901. From " The Harmsworth Magazine, Volume VI. February 1901-July 1901", by [Harmsworth Bros, Limited, London, 1901]

Housewifery Centre, Dulwich Hamlet School, Dulwich Village, London, 1907
Housewifery lesson, Housewifery Centre, Dulwich Hamlet School, Dulwich Village, London, 1907. A girl is setting the fireplace under the supervision of a woman, presumably a teacher

Farmfield Reformatory for Female Inebriates, Horley, Surrey, 1910. Women are supervised as they work in the weaving and spinning rooms at the establishment

Needlework lesson, Montpelier House Open Air School, London, 1908
Children sitting in a circle on deck chairs during their needlework lesson, Montpelier House Open Air School, London, 1908. Sewing towels and bags for school use

Rifle shooting lesson, Jews Free School, Stepney, London, 1908
Musket lesson, Jews Free School, Stepney, London, 1908. Three boys firing muskets down a firing range from the prone position, supervised by a teacher and an army sergeant

Sitting examinations, Crawford Street School, Camberwell, London, 1906. Rows of boys and girls sit at desks taking their Oxford Local examination in the school hall

Female workers in the telephone room, New York Stock Exchange, USA, early 1930s. Artist
Female workers in the telephone room, New York Stock Exchange, USA, early 1930s

Mafeking: Natives Digging a Trench, 1902. Artist: WH Weekes
Mafeking: Natives Digging a Trench, 1902. The Second Boer War (1899-1902), South Africa. From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. III

The Building of the Ark Superintended by Noah, (1493), 1903
The Building of the Ark Superintended by Noah, 1493. After an original illustration from Hartmann Schedels (1440 -1514), Nuremberg Chronicle. Also known as the Liber Chronicarum

After the Declaration of War: German beer being run away at an Italian Customs store, 1915. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War, Vol. II. - 1914-15. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1915]

Julie, Ou Le Premier Baiser De L Amour, (First Kiss), 1784-1799, (1913). Artist: Jacques-Louis Copia
Julie, Ou Le Premier Baiser De L Amour, (First Kiss), 1784-1799, (1913). After Jean-Baptiste Mallet (1759-1835). From French Colour-Prints of the XVIII Century. [William Heinemann, London, 1913]

A Revised Empire Air Scheme, 1939, (1940). A revised Empire Air Scheme in the late autumn of 1939 moved training of the Australian air contingent from Canada to Australia

Making the huge cigars smoked by women, Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel Co
Making the huge cigars smoked by women, Burma, 1908. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Babur superintending in the Garden of Fidelity, 1508 (1956). Babur (1483-1530) was the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India. Illustration from Memoirs of Babur

Cobbling, Earlswood Asylum, Reigate, 1904. Opened in 1848, the Royal Earlswood Hospital was an asylum for people with learning difficulties, or idiots as they were described at the time

A Young Pioneers camp canteen, USSR, 1930s. The Young Pioneers was a youth organisation established by the Communist Party in Russia in 1922

The excavations of Antinopolis, Egypt, by Albert Gayet, 1904. Antinopolis (Antinoe) was a city on the bank of the Nile founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian near the site where his deified lover

Destroying the grasshopper, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 4th August 1901

Laying railway track under the Equatorial sun, Brazzaville, Congo, 1924. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 6th June 1924

Cugnots Steam Wagon, 19th century. Trial of Nicolas Joseph Cugnots three-wheeled steam carriage at the Arsenal of Paris, 1770. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804) was a French inventor

Clinic at the School of Dentistry, Paris, 1892. A female student treating a patient under supervision

Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Artist: Lester
Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Negro slaves washing for alluvial gold watched over by a slave master brandishing a whip

Vacation Amusements No 4, 1840. Artist: John Doyle
Vacation Amusements No 4, 1840. A young Queen Victoria and Prince Albert join the Duke of Wellington for some holiday sketching and painting

French Foreign Legion doing their washing, Casablanca, Morocco, 20th century. Artist: Boussuge
French Foreign Legion doing their washing, Casablanca, Morocco, 20th century. French postcard

Negro slaves washing for diamonds watched over by supervisors with whips, Brazil, 1815. Brazil was the largest market in the Americas for African slaves

Pope Leo X supervising the burning of Martin Luthors books, 1521
Woodcut of Pope LEO X (Giovanni de Medici 1475-1521, Pope from 1513) supervising the burning of Martin Luthers books after the first Diet of Worms, 1521

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