Sweeping Collection

The March of Intellect, (1828?). Artist: Robert Seymour
The March of Intellect, (1828?); showing a juggernaut figure with London University on its head and balloons issuing from its pipe, sweeping and kicking to one side lawyers, vicars, and quack doctors

Eve-of-the-Wedding Party, 1889. Artist: Alexei Ivanovich Korzukhin
Eve-of-the-Wedding Party, 1889. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Woman Sweeping the Yard outside the Inn at Vaugirard, 1865. Creator: Leon Bonvin
Woman Sweeping the Yard outside the Inn at Vaugirard, 1865

Shinchunagon Taira no Tomomori Sweeping the Deck, 1886. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Shinchunagon Taira no Tomomori Sweeping the Deck, 1886. From Yoshitoshi's Warriors Trembling with Courage. In May 1185, Taira no Tomomori killed himself in the Battle of Dan no ura

Un locataire qui a eu un oubli le 1er janvier, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un locataire qui a eu un oubli le 1er janvier, 1847. A tenant who forgot something on January 1st. [Landlady brushing dust towards tenant who has neglected to pay his rent

Ice fun on the corner of Spui and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, 1773-1838. Creators: Anthonie van den Bos, Jan van Kessel
Ice fun on the corner of Spui and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, 1773-1838

Maid sweeping the hallway of a house, 1837. Creator: Louis Henri de Fontenay
Maid sweeping the hallway of a house, 1837

The interior of Saint Bavo's Church in Haarlem, 1660-1703. Creator: Isaak van Nickele
The interior of Saint Bavo's Church in Haarlem, 1660-1703. The Grote Kerk (or St.-Bavokerk) was consecrated as a cathedral in 1559

Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908

View from across street of a woman cleaning the sidewalk, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
View from across street of a woman cleaning the sidewalk, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

A Village Scene in India [verso], 1814/1824. Creator: George Chinnery
A Village Scene in India [verso], 1814/1824

The George Inn, Beaconsfield, 1908. Creator: Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
The George Inn, Beaconsfield, 1908

The sweeper, c.1670. Creator: Pieter Janssens Elinga
The sweeper, c.1670

Child, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Child, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Child, 1913

Women Admiring Peonies, c. 1789/1801. Creator: Katsukawa Shuncho
Women Admiring Peonies, c. 1789/1801. Detail from a larger artwork

Sleeve-Letter Takasago (Sodefumi Takasago), no. 2 from a series of 12 prints...plays, c. 1716/35
Sleeve-Letter Takasago (Sodefumi Takasago), no. 2 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716/35

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

A Woman Sweeping up Her Love Letters, 1725-1770. 1725-1770. Creator: Suzuki Harunobu
A Woman Sweeping up Her Love Letters, 1725-1770

The Young Servant, 1882. Artist: Camille Pissarro
The Young Servant, 1882. From the Tate Gallery, London

The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworms, Plate 5 from "The I... ca. 1595
The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworms, Plate 5 from " The Introduction of the Silkworm" [Vermis Sericus], ca. 1595

Government charwoman cleaning after regular... Washington, D.C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Government charwoman cleaning after regular working hours. [Mrs Ella Watson]

Grandchild of Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, taking her... nap, Washington, D.C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Grandchild of Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, taking her afternoon nap

Government charwoman cleaning after regular working hours, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Government charwoman cleaning after regular working hours. [Mrs Ella Watson]

Shows pickers tents, power unit and shower bath... FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon
Shows pickers tents, power unit and shower bath unit beyond. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp

Women Admiring Peonies, c. 1789 / 1801. Creator: Katsukawa Shuncho
Women Admiring Peonies, c. 1789/1801

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year, Japan, c. 1797 / 99
House cleaning in preparation for the New Year, Japan, c. 1797/99

Shikata nue, from the series "Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays
Shikata nue, from the series " Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)", c. 1705/06

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year, Japan, late 1790s

A Priest Sweeping in the Snow, 1731. Creator: Torii Kiyonobu II
A Priest Sweeping in the Snow, 1731

Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, c. 1767 / 68
Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets, c. 1767/68

Woman with Broom and Little Girl, n. d. Creator: Catherine Greenaway
Woman with Broom and Little Girl, n.d

Moso (Chinese: Meng Zong), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of
Moso (Chinese: Meng Zong), from the series " Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)", c. 1770/72

Pilgrim Bottle Vase, Stoke-on-Trent, 1880 / 90. Creator: Minton
Pilgrim Bottle Vase, Stoke-on-Trent, 1880/90

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

The Man Sweeping the Interpreters Parlor, c. 1820 / 1822. Creator: William Blake
The Man Sweeping the Interpreters Parlor, c. 1820/1822

Winter Morning on the Quay, Paris, 1883. Creator: Felix Hilaire Buhot
Winter Morning on the Quay, Paris, 1883

The Hotpot Carried to the Newlyweds; or The Racket, ca. 1633. Creator: Abraham Bosse
The Hotpot Carried to the Newlyweds; or The Racket, ca. 1633

Charivari, ca. 1633. Creator: Abraham Bosse
Charivari, ca. 1633

The Poets Cabin in Tatsumi, 1845. Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
The Poets Cabin in Tatsumi, 1845

Ely Cathedral, from the Grammar School, 1857. Creator: Roger Fenton
Ely Cathedral, from the Grammar School, 1857

Scavengers Cart, 1788. 1788. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Scavengers Cart, 1788

Road in Etten, 1881. Creator: Vincent van Gogh
Road in Etten, 1881

Painting, 19th century. Creator: Shibata Zeshin
Painting, 19th century

The Crossing Sweeper, ca. 1860s. Creator: Seymour Joseph Guy
The Crossing Sweeper, ca. 1860s

The Money-Tree, 1922. Creator: Unknown
The Money-Tree, 1922. According to Chinese legend, the money tree brings fortune and is a symbol of affluence, nobility and auspiciousness. From " Myths and Legends of China", by E. T. C

The Western Doorway, Rochester Cathedral, c1870. Rochester Cathedral built by Gundulf from 1080, and later remodelled is a Grade I listed building

Gateway into the Garden at St. John s, c1870. The garden at St Johns College, Oxford, founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas White. From " Picturesque Europe - The British Isles, Vol. II"

Using water to put out fire, c1910. Creator: Unknown
Using water to put out fire, c1910. Scene from " The Pilgrims Progress", by John Bunyan. Glass lantern slide produced by the Church Army Lantern Department which in 1905 had approximately

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