18th Century Birdcages
A page on birdcages of the 12th-17th centuries is available on my older website.
Woman in an interior, c. 1700
Interior with a woman and a boy by Frans van Mieris the Younger
The birds’ nest by Nicolas Lancret
The Scissors-Grinder by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1741
Old Darby and Joan, 1759
The Press Gang by John Collet
The Earl of Jersey and Miss Ford, 1761
Tavern interior by John S C Schaak, 1762
High Life Below Stairs by John Collet, 1763
The Recruiting Sargeant by John Collet, 1767
The Quiet Husband, 1768
Girl Bundling Asparagus by John Atkinson, 1771
Leonora and Leander, 1773
Cobler’s Hall, 1775
Industry, c. 1780s-1790s
The Coffee-House, 1781
Winter, 1783
The Rustic Lover by Francis Wheatley, 1786
The Family Concert, 1787
Girl with a birdcage seated on a bed by Jean-Frédéric Schall, late 18th century
The griddle-cake baker by Adriaan de Leli, c. 1790-1810
An illustration to Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, 1792
A cottage exterior with a seated labourer filling his pipe by William Redmore Bigg, 1793
Connubial Happiness, 1797
The Sargent Family, c. 1800
The Spoiled Child, Scene II by Lewis Vaslet, c. 1802