Washing Collection (page 16)

Christ in the House of Simon, 1440 s. Artist: Dieric Bouts
Christ in the House of Simon, 1440 s. Located in the collection at, Staatliche Museum, Berlin

The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Rome, 1831. Artist: Landelot-Theodore Turpin de Crisse
The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Rome, 1831. From the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France

Study of bathers, 1890. Artist: Paul Cezanne
Study of bathers, 1890

Laundrette at Low Tide, 1891. Artist: Emmanuel Lansyer
Laundrette at Low Tide, 1891. From the collection of the Musee Lansyer, Loches, France

Douarnenez, 1885. Artist: Emmanuel Lansyer
Douarnenez, 1884. From the collection of the Musee Lansyer, Loches, France

Women at the Fountain, 1867. Artist: Emmanuel Lansyer
Women at the Fountain, 1867. From the collection of the Musee Lansyer, Loches, France

The Laundrette of the Coataner in the Morning, 1883. Artist: Emmanuel Lansyer
The Laundrette of the Coataner in the Morning, Douarnenez, France, 1883

The Dutch Peasants, 17th century. Artist: Adriaen van Ostade
The Dutch Peasants, 17th century

Waterfall of Roben, Oyama, Japan, 1827. Artist: Hokusai
Waterfall of Roben, Oyama, Japan, 1827. From the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Women washing the precious metal platinum from alluvial gravels, Urals, Russia, 1916

Ironing room in a laundry, 1867. The washroom can be seen through the door in the background. On the left is the stove for heating flatirons

Washing ore to extract gold, 1683. Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore. The solution containing ore in suspension is fed along collecting pans, often lined with dark woollen cloth

Newcastle-upon-Tyne from the south-west, c1850. Artist: Thomas Abiel Prior
Newcastle-upon-Tyne from the south-west, c1850. This view shows the High Level Bridge built by Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) between 1846 and 1849

Raising water by means of a shaduf, China, 1825-1835. The shaduf was invented in ancient times and is a simple device with a bucket attached by a rope to one end of a shaft and, in this version

Volunteer English woman driver washing down her ambulance, Cambridge, World War I, 1915. The ambulance, a converted Wolseley, was donated towards the war effort

Washing, c1845. Artist: Robert Kent Thomas
Washing, c1845. Showing two shepherds washing their sheep in a pond. Plate from Graphic Illustrations of Animals - Showing Their Utility to Man

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

High Level Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, 1849. Artist: Thomas Abiel Prior
High Level Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, c1849. The High Level Bridge was built to carry the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway over the River Tyne

Aquamanile, cast bronze Persian (Khurusan) animal statue, 1206. A Zebu-Cow suckles her calf as a lion attacks her back. Lost wax process, incised and inlaid with silver. Hermitage Museum, Leningrad

Depiction of bathing a baby from a Roman sarcophagus, now at the Capitoline Museum in Rome

La Fontaine (The Water Cistern), 1733. Artist: Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Simeon (1699-1779)
La Fontaine (The Water Cistern), 1733. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

White-ground lekythos with a pianting of a woman at a wash basin, Attica, Greece, 470BC-460BC. From the British Museums collection

Archimedes in his bath, 1547. Sixteenth-century hand-coloured woodcut of the Greek mathematician and inventor (c287-212 BC)

Three generations listening to a reading from the family Bible, c1800. Artist: Maria Spilsbury
Three generations listening to a reading from the family Bible, c1800. Grandparents, parents and two children sit at the table, and a baby lies in a basketwork cradle

Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1853. The apparatus they are using is called a Long Tom. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to mass immigration into California

Gold mining, California, USA, c1868. Miners using a hydraulic method invented in California, washing down gold-bearing ore with a jet of water

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

Marianne, the Queen of the Washerwomen, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer
Marianne, the Queen of the Washerwomen, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 25th February 1893

Laundresses strike, 1891. A strikers leader addressing a meeting in Hyde Park, London. Cartoon from Punch. (London, 27 June 1891)

Forging mills, washing, 1751-1777. Artist: Denis Diderot
Forging mills, washing, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

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

Washing for tin, 1556. After digging out a substantial amount, miners would alter the course of the stream, washing away light material and leaving tin-bearing ore

Mary Magdalene anointing the feet of Jesus, c1860. From the Bible (John 12)

Five Bathers, c1875-1877. Artist: Paul Cezanne
Five Bathers, c1875-1877. From the Musee d Orsay, Paris

Bathsheba at her Bath, 1654. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Bathsheba at her Bath, 1654. According to the Old Testament, Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah. She committed adultery with King David of Israel and became pregnant

Washing for gold, California, c1850. Wood engraving

Sauce for the Gander, 1871. Artist: Joseph Swain
Sauce for the Gander, 1871. A working man sits down to his evening meal. His wife, however, is still working. This cartoon relates to the strike of engineers at Newcastle

Washing the Blackamoor white, 1858. Sir Jung Bahadoor and his Knights Companions of the Bath. Sir Jung Bahadoor, a Nepalese prince

The Cottage. The man warming his hands at the fire is a rural worker. This one room has to provide living and sleeping accommodation for his wife and large family

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