18th century knife grinders
Knives or Cisers to Grinde = Cauteaux et Ciseaux a Moudre = Ruota Coltellini by Marcellus Laroon
Gagne Petit by Nicolas Bonnart
Decroteur qui décrotte by Nicolas Guérard
Drawing of a man sharpening a blade on a grindstone by Edme Bouchardon, c. 1730s
Cries of Paris: Knife grinder by Samuel Richardson, 1737
The Enraged Musician by William Hogarth, 1741
The Scissors-Grinder by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1741
Rome: Ruins of the Forum looking towards the Capitol by Canaletto, 1742
La Conversation, 1742
St. James’s in October, the K— in H—, 1750
A knife-grinder, Paris, second half of the 18th century
A knife-sharpener in the Cries of Danzig, c. 1765
Le rémouleur by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
Gezicht van de Nieuwe Koren-Beurs, tot Amsterdam, c. 1770-1783 (also here)
Cris de Paris: Couteaux, ciseaux à r’passer, 1774-1775
The Henry VIII Gateway with a view of St George’s Chapel by Paul Sandby, c. 1775
A puppet knife-grinder from the Théatre Séraphin in Paris, c. 1775-1800
View of St. George’s Chapel and the Town Gate of Windsor, 1780
The Blacksmith and Knife Grider with a distant of Sir Ricd Worsleys Pavilion &c in Hyde Park 1780 by Paul Sandby
Grimburgwal viewed from number 13 by H.P. Schouten, 1783
A knife-grinder in Venice, from Le arti che vanno per via nella citta di Venezia by Gaetano Zompini, published in 1785
Employment during recess, 1786
A travelling knife-grinder at a cottage door by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1787
Picturesque Etchings: 'Huntsmen Visiting the Kennels' and other rural studies by Thomas Rowlandson, 1791; includes a piggery with a knife grinder installed next to it
Windsor Castle from towards Priest’s Hill by Paul Sandby, 1792
Cries of London: Knives Scissors and Razors to Grind, 1795
Cries of Edinburgh: Razors, knives, and shears to grind I’m ſure I’ll sharp them to your mind, 1803
The knife grinder by Jean Baptiste Bernard Coclers
Knives or Scissors to Grind by Thomas Rowlandson
A knife-grinder by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux
Maternal Care by Sigmund Freudenberger