18th Century Wheelbarrows
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Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters from the cryes of the city of London
Regata di carriole by Giovanni Grevembroch
De Kruiwagen by Jan Luyken, 1711
The Basin of Bacchus at the Gardens of Versailles, 1st quarter of the 18th century
The Vegetable Seller by Pieter Angillis, 1724
Silver figurine of a man with a wheelbarrow by Frederik van Strant, c. 1725
The Old Stocks Market by Joseph van Aken
Vinegar seller by Edme Bouchardon, c. 1730s
Satire on the Act of Parliament for the suppression of gin, c. 1736
M’ſt ye ha’ ſome Golden Pippins, 1739?
Enthusiasm Display’d, or The Moor-Fields Congregation, 1739
Brouette and brouettes à pierres in collection de dessins d'outils du XVIIIe siècle représentant des outils de construction et des instruments utilisés par les ouvriers et soldats du Génie dans l'édification des forteresses françaises du Nord et du Rhin, c. 1740
Figure studies by Paul Sandby, c. 1740-1765
A sheet of figure studies by Paul Sandby
Owen Farrel the Irish Dwarf, 1742
The Theatrical Contest, 1743
A woman with a barrow of fruit by Francis Grose, 1746-1791
Industry and Idleness: The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn and The Industrious 'Prentice Lord-Mayor of London by William Hogarth, 1747
The Wheel-Barrow Crys of Europe, in 1748-9
Milk-pot made at Sèvres, 1778
Drinking-bowl and its tray, made at Sèvres
Horse Fair on Bruntsfield Links, Edinburgh by Paul Sandby, 1750
Woolwich Arsenal, about 1750: looking north towards Laboratory Square, attributed to Gamaliel Massiot
The Moat Island, 1754
Holbein&rdsquo;s Gateway and Jones’s Banqueting House, Whitehall by Louis Philippe Boitard
A basket barrow in Any Tripe or Neats Feet or Calves Feet or Trotters Ho from Twelve London Cries by Paul Sandby, 1760
De Oude Waalen-Kerk van binnen, naar 't Westen, te zien, c. 1760-1765
Diderot’s Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1762, pages 134, 140, and 440
The north front of the Castle from Isherwood’s Brewery in Datchet Lane by Paul Sandby, c. 1765
Het Gezicht van 't Gouveneur Generaals Huys Staande op het Eyland Edam, 1767
The Female Bruisers by John Collet, 1768
The little gardener by François Boucher; see also Le petit jardinier
Windsor Castle from a brewhouse yard in Datchet Lane by Paul Sandby, c. 1770
View of Windsor Castle from Mr. Isherwood’s brewhouse in Datchet Lane by Paul Sandby, c. 1770-1800
Mr. Vaughan’s, Boys Hill, Dorset by Samuel Scott
Two men walking past a woman asleep beside a wheelbarrow of fruit, which is being stolen by two small boys by Gabriel Bray
Manerbawr Castle From the Inward Court, 1775
The village of Wehl in Cleefsland by Jan Brandes, 1775
A Trip to Coxheath, 1778
The European Diligence, 1779
The Encampment at Blackheath by Paul Sandby, 1780
The Blacksmith and Knife Grinder in Hyde Park by Paul Sandby, 1780
View near the Serpentine River in Hyde Park during the Encampment by Paul Sandby, 1780
View near the Serpentine River, Hyde Park during the Encampment by Paul Sandby, 1780
View near the Serpentine River during the Encampment, 1780 by Paul Sandby
The Fruit Barrow, 1780
A military encampment in the Green Park by Edward Eyre, 1780
View at Delft by Johannes Huibert Prins, 1782
A flat wheelbarrow with a space for a basket at The Asylum for the Deaf, late 18th century
Fragment of a fan with a young man pushing Cupid in a wheelbarrow
Sketch with a wheelbarrow, lily branches and flower crown by Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin
The Savoyard and his marmot by Louis Joseph Watteau, 1783
Over with him, 1783
The gardener by Louis Joseph Watteau
North Parade, Bath by Humphrey Repton, 1784
An auction taking place in a street, where a child is pulled along in a wheelbarrow, from Thomas Rowlandson’s New Book of Horses and Carriages, 1784
The Travelling Musicians by Robert Dighton
A View of the Parade at Bath, c. 1785
The Cok of the Walk, Distributing his Favours, 1786
A new way to pay the National-Debt, 1786
The go-between or barrow man embarass’d, 1787
A Green Stall, 1788
What a Man buys he may sell, 1788
Chancellors taught Law & Bishops Divinity, 1789
Drawing of a crowd outside a print-shop, including a woman with a wheelbarrow, by J Elwood, 1790
The Happy Cottagers by George Morland, c. 1790-1792
Illustration of Arthur and Adrian with a gardener from The Looking Glass for the Mind, 1792
Which you will for a Halfpenny, 1791
Three studies of a woman with a wheelbarrow and scales by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1791
Sir William Clayton, when a boy attributed to William Hoare of Bath
Which you will for a Halfpenny, 1791
Baskerville House the residence of John Ryland, Esq., 1792
Picturesque etchings and other rural studies, including a man pushing a wheelbarrow selling potatoes, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1792
Studies of a barrow and cart, 1792
The Produce of Industry, after 1793
The Happy Cottagers, 1793
Incomplete model of a wheelbarrow, 1793
Amphitheater at the king’s garden by Jean-Baptiste Hillaire, c. 1794
Rural scene with a ramshackle cottage, c. 1794-1797
Cries of London: Round and Sound Five Pence a Pound Duke Cherrys, 1795
Sandwich-Carrots! dainty Sandwich-Carrots!, 1796
The transept of Tintern Abbey by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1797
Northeast view of Grantham Church, Lincolnshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1797
United Irishmen upon duty, 1798
Gardener pulling a wheelbarrow by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
A woman wheeling a barrow of vegetables by Paul Sandby
Entrance from Hackney, 1798
Unruly Pigs by Isaac Cruikshank, 1799
The Charming Orange Girl, 1799
The garden of Thomas Sandby’s house at Englefield Green near Windsor by Paul Sandby, c. 1800
A barn with three men and a calf
The garden of Villa Roberti, at the foot of the temple of Vesta
Doctor Drainbarrel conveyed home in order to take his Trial for Neglect of Family Duty by Thomas Rowlandson, 1810
A lime pit by George Frost
Norwich by John Varley
Drove of sheep and cows by Robert Hills
Standing man with a wheelbarrow by Jordanus Hoorn
A wheelbarrow and another wheelbarrow drawn by Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers