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