Apprentice Collection (#16)

HOGARTH: INDUSTRY, 1747. Industry and Idleness: The Industrious Prentice, a Favorite, and Entrusted by His Master. Plate 4. Steel engraving after the etching, 1747, by William Hogarth

TRADES: PEWTERER. Line engraving after a 16th century woodcut by Jost Amman

COLONIAL DYER, 18th C. A colonial American dyer assisted by indentured servants: engraving, late 18th century

COLONIAL BRICKLAYER, 18th C. A colonial American bricklayer assisted by an indentured servant: engraving, late 18th century

COLONIAL POTTER, 18th C. A colonial American potter assisted by indentured servants: engraving, late 18th century

COLONIAL SOAPMAKER, 18th C. A colonial American soapmaker assisted by an indentured servant: engraving, late 18th century

TEXTILE MILL, 1747. The Fellow Prentices at the Looms. Plate 1 from William Hogarths series of engravings on Industry and Idleness, 1747

JOHANN GUTENBERG (c1400-1468). German printer. Steel engraving, American, 1869

COLONIAL POTTER. A colonial American potter assisted by indentured servants. Line engraving, late 18th century

Courtesan watching a young apprentice in bed. Print shows a courtesan watching a young female student in bed with a client. Date between 1768 and 1771

Masters chart. Entered apprentice

A courtesan and her apprentice (Shinzo). Print shows a courtesan, full-length, sitting, holding a brush for painting or writing, with an apprentice. Date between 1774 and 1777

Bootmakers in Cyprus
Making traditional Cypriot heavy boots in Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Female Initiation - 1
A female candidate is initiated as an Apprentice, crossing a see-saw which symbolises the danger of the faux-pas. Date: 1891

Brush Making
Young brushmakers knotting bristles after dipping them in pitch, Leicestershire, England. Date: 1950s

Apprentice Blacksmiths
Boys, apprentices, learning how to be blacksmiths. Date: early 1930s

Franco-British Exhibition - White City - Young Potter
The Franco-British Exhibition - White City - A Young indigenous Algerian Potter - from the Ceramic School of M. Soupireau. Date: circa 1910s

Apprentice cabinet maker, Shoreditch, London
An apprentice learning his trade at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. c.1947

Kirchner Girl Circa 1913
Parisian milliners apprentice delivering a new hat wears a short narrow skirt with a buttoned split at the side, Louis heel shoes, blouse with tie & a square, brimless hat. Date: circa 1913

Apprentice Received
An apprentice is ceremonially received into a French Lodge by the Master Date: 1890s

Girl Takes Doll to Shop
A young girl takes her doll to a carpentry shop and asks them if they would mend her doll, whose head has fallen off. Date: 1879

Child labour in a tailor
Tailors apprentice, France 1841

Child labour in carpenters shop
Carpenters apprentice, France 1841

Conrad Gessners nature collection
Collection of Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), coloured artwork. Gessner was a Swiss naturalist, and his collection was located in Zurich, Switzerland

BUSN2A-00088
Pat Lyon, blacksmith, at the forge. Hand-colored woodcut

BUSN2A-00134
Woodworker showing young boy his tools and techniques. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

PREV2A-00080
Young Ben Franklin in a Philadelphia printing shop, told by Governor Keith he should go to England. Hand-colored woodcut

PREV2A-00088
Ben Franklin arriving in Philadelphia as a young man looking for work. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Boy pushing coal wagon in mine at Halifax, Yorkshire
A boy with a belt and chain around his waist pushes a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire

Boy dragging coal wagon with belt and chain in mine
A boy with a belt and chain around his waist drags a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire

Hiltons Shoe Company Store
Hiltons Shoe Company. The Branch Manager and his young employee stand outside the shop, which has taken direct branding to a new level - preventing even the casual passer-by from ever forgetting

A Trainee Signalman
A trainee signalman operates the junctions on a model railway as part of his training. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Female Apprentice
A female apprentice is inducted into one of the French lodges which admit the existence of women and accept them as Co-Masons

Thomas Guy
Born in 1644, Guy completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament. He moved to London and spent eight years as a booksellers apprentice

Thomas Guys tomb
The tomb of Thomas Guy in the chapel at Guys hospital. Born in 1644, he completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament

The London Apprentice a fine old Georgian inn overlooking the River Thames at Isleworth, Middlesex, England

C17 Chimneysweep
A chimney sweep and his apprentice, who was sent up the chimney

Apprentice Miners / 1966
Apprentice miners being trained in Derbyshire

Paper Factory Apprentice
A young apprentice and fellow workers at the Drayton Paper Works, Fulham, London

Back to the Grindstone
A grinder and his assistant sharpening knives or other tools on a grindstone

SHOEMAKERs SHOP 1875
A shoemaker and shoe repairers shop and workshop, with two well-heeled lady customers admiring a display of shoes and boots

A Farrier at work, Worcestershire
A Farrier at work, fitting a shoe to a large working horse, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Novice Buddhist monks, Doi Kong Mu Temple, Mae Hong Son, northern Thailand, Asia

Racial / Japan / Girl / Geisha
A girl (possibly an apprentice geisha) sitting in an elaborate and heavy kimono

London Coster / Scrap
A London costerman, balancing a basket of fruit on his head, calls out to attract trade; his apprentice rides a carrot- chewing mule laden with more produce

C16th Hatters
Two hatters and an apprentice are involved in some of the various processes involved in hatmaking

Window Cleaning Girl
Georgina, replaces the male window cleaner whilst he is in the army during World War Two. She wears an apron, a ladder on her shoulder and a bucket over her capable arm

Sorcerers Apprentice
The Sorcerers Apprentice : " and then there came another splash from overhead"

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