Weight Collection

Experiments with Captain Fowke's pontoon bridge on the Serpentine, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Experiments with Captain Fowke's pontoon bridge on the Serpentine, [London], 1860. The pontoon to be tested consists of an oblong framework of wood and iron

Design for the decorative arts and sciences on the Noordermarkt, 1795. Creator: Anon
Design for the decorative arts and sciences on the Noordermarkt, 1795. Minerva sitting in the clouds with plumbline (equality) above a wreath and fire labelled Nature and Reason'

Penguin, 1899 July 29. Creator: Johns Johnston
Penguin, 1899 July 29. Note crew standing on ropes either side of bowsprit

Minta, 1896 Aug 1. Creator: Johns Johnston
Minta, 1896 Aug 1. Note crewman with weights on bowsprit

Kittie, 1895 June 15. Creator: Johns Johnston
Kittie, 1895 June 15. Note crew using their bodies as counterweights to the wind

Exercises de l'Hercule Prussien, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Exercises de l'Hercule Prussien, 19th century. [Crimean War]. The Tasks of the Prussian Hercules. Will he lift it? Will he not?

Pas mèche!!!, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Pas meche!!!, 19th century. Nothing doing!!! Man trying to lift a weight labelled restoration of the monarchy

Archimède démontrant aux ingènieurs anglais... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Archimede demontrant aux ingenieurs anglais... 19th century. Archimedes showing the English engineers how, in Syracuse, he raised not just one vessel but an entire fleet

Army, U.S. Physical Examination, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Army, U.S. Physical Examination, 1917
Army, U.S. Physical Examination, 1917

Pendulum-Room at the Bottom of the Harton Coal-Pit, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Pendulum-Room at the Bottom of the Harton Coal-Pit, 1854. Experiment to determine the weight of the Earth. The apparatus consists of two astronomical clocks with compensation pendulums

Mouth of the Harton Coal-Pit, South Shields, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Mouth of the Harton Coal-Pit, South Shields, 1854. Mr. Airy['s] grand object was to arrive at the weight of our globe...it being necessary to know this before we can proceed to determine

The work of a drop of milk at the Belleville Dispensary (triptych), 1903. Creator: Henry Jules Jean Geoffroy
The work of a drop of milk at the Belleville Dispensary (triptych), 1903

Wood: Lu Zhishen (Moku, Rochishin), from the series "The Five Elements of The...", early 1830s
Wood: Lu Zhishen (Moku, Rochishin), from the series "The Five Elements of The Water Margin (Suiko gogyo)", early 1830s

9-pounder brass gun, 56-pounder iron gun, 1854. Creator: Unknown
9-pounder brass gun, 56-pounder iron gun, 1854. 9-pounder...weighing 13 cwt.; such a gun, with its carriage, limbers, ammunition (32 rounds), side-arms, and stores, weighs 38½ cwt

Love's the Lightest, n.d. Creator: William Browne
Love's the Lightest, n.d

Just Up to Your Weight, n. d. Creator: Hablot Knight Browne
Just Up to Your Weight, n.d

Weight in the Form of Nestled Birds, Tang dynasty (618-907 A. D. ). Creator: Unknown
Weight in the Form of Nestled Birds, Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.)

Weight Representing a Llama, A. D. 1450 / 1532. Creator: Unknown
Weight Representing a Llama, A.D. 1450/1532

Bottle in Form of a Figure Carrying a Burden with a Tumpline, 100 B. C. / A. D. 500
Bottle in Form of a Figure Carrying a Burden with a Tumpline, 100 B.C./A.D. 500

The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone, Modeled 1881-82, cast 1902 / 24
The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone, Modeled 1881-82, cast 1902/24

Goldweight Depicting a Geometric Shape, Ghana, 17th / 18th century. Creator: Unknown
Goldweight Depicting a Geometric Shape, Ghana, 17th/18th century

Windmill Counterbalance, c. 1938. Creator: Wilbur M Rice
Windmill Counterbalance, c. 1938

Plumb Line and Board, 1939. Creator: Walter Praefke
Plumb Line and Board, 1939

Goldweight with a Geometric Design, Ghana, 18th / 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Goldweight with a Geometric Design, Ghana, 18th/19th century

Rat on a Fuchin, Ornament with a Design of Egoyomi (Pictorial Calendar), 1816

Weight, 15th-early 18th century. Creator: Unknown
Cast copper alloy triangular geometric weight with beveled notched edges, incised designs and central hole

Tiger-shaped ornament or weight, Period of Division, 220-589. Creator: Unknown
Tiger-shaped ornament or weight, Period of Division, 220-589

Ornament or weight: a recumbent ch i-lin, Qing dynasty, 18th century. Creator: Unknown
Ornament or weight: a recumbent ch i-lin, Qing dynasty, 18th century

Possibly weight with a crouching tiger, Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE. Creator: Unknown
Possibly weight with a crouching tiger, Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE

Sleeve-weight in the form of a plaque, Late Eastern Zhou dynasty, possibly modern; or 5th-4th century BCE

Log Load Tightener, 1939. Creator: Max Fernekes
Log Load Tightener, 1939

Death with a Coffin, c. 1917. Creator: Christian Rohlfs
Death with a Coffin, c. 1917

Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664. Creator: Jan Vermeer
Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664. An allegory encouraging us to conduct our lives with temperance and moderation

The Atlas of the Landed Interest, February 18, 1784. Creator: James Sayers
The Atlas of the Landed Interest, February 18, 1784

Copper station, Nine Elms, Telegraph, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Copper station, Nine Elms, Telegraph, 1844. Such is its velocity, that when this [Electric Printing Telegraph] shall be laid down the entire line, the time occupied in the transit of a message

Two Personages of Great Weight on the Turf. Query_Which is the weightier ?, 1829. British racehorse owner Thomas Thornhill (1783-1844), and jockey and racehorse trainer Samuel Chiffney (1786-1854)

Jesus falls the second time under the weight of the cross, c1920s. Creator: Unknown
Jesus falls the second time under the weight of the cross, c1920s. Relief carving of one of the twelve Stations of the Cross - the traditional depiction of Jesus Christ carrying the cross to his

Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon or ever hath been, c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré
Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon or ever hath been, of these toil-worn souls Might purchase rest for one, c1890. The damned struggling to push heavy weights uphill

A Contrast, c1838. Creator: Unknown
A Contrast, c1838. Political satire depicting British politicians: Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), and Arthur Wellesley

The Weighing of the Great Mogul, c1782
The Weighing of the Great Mogul on his birthday in the Royal Pavilion, c1782. Subsequently he will distribute his weight in gold to the poor and needy

Market of the merchants, Miniature in the Codice Justiniano Institutiones Feodorum et Alia, illuminated manuscript, c.1300

YWCA members exercising, 1910s

Kreuztragender Christus, (Christ Carrying the Cross), c1577-1587, (1938). Artist: El Greco
Kreuztragender Christus, (Christ Carrying the Cross), c1577-1587, (1938). From El Greco. [George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1938]

Going to the Scale, 1911. From British Sports and Sportsmen Part 1. [British Sports and Sportsmen, London, 1911]

An Officer of the Guards in Full Dress, c1812 (1909). Artist: Joseph Constantine Stadler
An Officer of the Guards in Full Dress, c1812 (1909). After Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859). From British Military Prints, by Ralph Nevill. [The Connoisseur, London, 1909]

El Pasmo de Sicilia, (Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary), c1515, (c1934). Artist: Raphael
El Pasmo de Sicilia, (Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary), c1515, (c1934). Christ Carrying the Cross to his crucifixion, at the moment when he falls, his mother kneels in agony, and devotion

Dumb-Bell Exercises, 1912. From The Book of Sports & Pastimes for Young People by J. K. Benson. [C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd, London, 1912]

59 lb Mahseer, Caught by Capt. H. B. D. Campbell, R. E. in the Upper Ganges, c1903, (1903)
59 lb Mahseer, Caught by Capt. H. B. D. Campbell, R.E. in the Upper Ganges, c1903, (1903). A Mahseer, a southern Asian fish in the carp family. From The Sports of the World, by F. G. Aflalo, F.R.G.S

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