Working Collection (#98)

The Sculptors Model (oil on canvas)
1769870 The Sculptors Model (oil on canvas) by Courten, Angelo (1848-1925); 119.4x68.6 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The Sculptors Model. Angelo Courten (1848-1925). Oil on canvas

Peeling Potatoes (etching)
6198575 Peeling Potatoes (etching) by Israels, Jozef (Josef) (1824-1911); 19.1x27 cm; The McManus, Dundee, UK; (add.info.: Orchar Collection); Dundee Art Galleries and Museums; Dutch, out of copyright

Man with Wheelbarrow, 1855-56 (etching)
6198937 Man with Wheelbarrow, 1855-56 (etching) by Millet, Jean-Francois (1814-75); 16.6x13.5 cm; The McManus, Dundee, UK; Dundee Art Galleries and Museums; French, out of copyright

Animals beneficial to man (coloured engraving)
5998836 Animals beneficial to man (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Animals beneficial to manPrint published by Pellerin & Cie, Imagerie D Epinal)

French Army engineers (coloured engraving)
5998754 French Army engineers (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: French Army engineers)

Soup stall outside the market of Les Halles, Paris, France (engraving)
6001380 Soup stall outside the market of Les Halles, Paris, France (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Soup stall outside the market of Les Halles, Paris)

Harvest scene with horses pulling a haywain (colour litho)
6001204 Harvest scene with horses pulling a haywain (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Harvest scene with horses pulling a haywain)

Milkmaid milking cows in a barn, watched by a cat (colour litho)
6001181 Milkmaid milking cows in a barn, watched by a cat (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Milkmaid milking cows in a barn, watched by a cat)

King Priam overseeing the rebuilding of Troy, from a manuscript of the time of King Louis XII of France
6001167 King Priam overseeing the rebuilding of Troy, from a manuscript of the time of King Louis XII of France, late 15th Century (litho) by French School

New Yorks mighty army of working women (b / w photo)
6002611 New Yorks mighty army of working women (b/w photo) by American Photographer (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: New Yorks mighty army of working women)

Japanese businessman and his secretary taking shorthand notes (b / w photo)
6015498 Japanese businessman and his secretary taking shorthand notes (b/w photo) by Japanese Photographer (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Young woman working in a textile mill (b / w photo)
6015496 Young woman working in a textile mill (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Young woman working in a textile mill)

A V Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, British Labour Co-operative politician
6015217 A V Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, British Labour Co-operative politician, First Lord of the Admiralty in World War II (photo) by English Photographer

Members of the various British womens war services, World War II, 1939-1945 (photo)
6015202 Members of the various British womens war services, World War II, 1939-1945 (photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Magnus Volk, British inventor who built the pioneering Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway
6014755 Magnus Volk, British inventor who built the pioneering Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, on the seafront at Brighton, Sussex, in 1883 (b/w photo) by English Photographer

Workers in a Japanese ceramics factory (colour litho)
6014601 Workers in a Japanese ceramics factory (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Workers in a Japanese ceramics factory)

Paysans (coloured engraving)
6016125 Paysans (coloured engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Paysans. Illustration for Costume du Moyen Age, D Apres les Manuscrits, les Peintures)

The Body Beautiful, Physical Culture for Women (b / w photo)
6009896 The Body Beautiful, Physical Culture for Women (b/w photo) by German Photographer (20th Century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration for The Body Beautiful)

Peat gatherers at work (coloured photo)
5999847 Peat gatherers at work (coloured photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Peat gatherers at work. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Crossing sweeper with a woman in Trafalgar Square, London (colour litho)
5999648 Crossing sweeper with a woman in Trafalgar Square, London (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Crossing sweeper with a woman in Trafalgar Square)

Manufacturing matches (engraving)
5999540 Manufacturing matches (engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Manufacturing matches)

Dr Pusey, portrait (litho)
5998059 Dr Pusey, portrait (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dr Pusey, portrait. Illustration for The Story of Dr Puseys Life by the author of Charles Lowder)

The Coster-Girl (engraving)
6006165 The Coster-Girl (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Coster-Girl. Illustration for London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew)

Sheds erected for supplying cheap coffee and cocoa for the "Navvies, "working on the Railway, at Pylle
6008101 Sheds erected for supplying cheap coffee and cocoa for the " Navvies, " working on the Railway, at Pylle, in Somersetshire (engraving) by English School

The Jew Old-Clothes-Man (engraving)
6006194 The Jew Old-Clothes-Man (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Jew Old-Clothes-Man)

The Saw Shop (engraving)
6011487 The Saw Shop (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Saw Shop. Illustration for The United States Magazine, Vol I (J M Emerson)

A Diligent Boy (engraving)
6010502 A Diligent Boy (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Diligent Boy. Illustration for The Infants Magazine (1876).); © Look and Learn

Boy sailor climbing the rigging of a ship (engraving)
5996214 Boy sailor climbing the rigging of a ship (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Boy sailor climbing the rigging of a ship)

English hairdresser Margaret Seyers calmly doing the hair of a circus lion tamer, watched by her animals, Hove
5997375 English hairdresser Margaret Seyers calmly doing the hair of a circus lion tamer, watched by her animals, Hove, Sussex (photo) by English Photographer

Construction of the canoe Livingstone, Congo (litho)
5997085 Construction of the canoe Livingstone, Congo (litho) by Spanish School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Construction of the canoe Livingstone, Congo)

Bactrian camels pulling American harvesting machines on the Russian Steppes in the Caucasus, 1909 (photo)
5999871 Bactrian camels pulling American harvesting machines on the Russian Steppes in the Caucasus, 1909 (photo) by American Photographer (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Slightly out of focus! (b / w photo)
5998223 Slightly out of focus! (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Slightly out of focus)

Bombed Queen, and Bombed Subject - Queen Elizabeth in the East End during the Blitz (b / w photo)
5998187 Bombed Queen, and Bombed Subject - Queen Elizabeth in the East End during the Blitz (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bombed Queen)

Rev P Jansz, with his native helper, working on a revision of the Javanese Bible (engraving)
5999309 Rev P Jansz, with his native helper, working on a revision of the Javanese Bible (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rev P Jansz)

Dray horse, Guinness Brewery, Dublin, Ireland (b / w photo)
6029987 Dray horse, Guinness Brewery, Dublin, Ireland (b/w photo) by Irish Photographer (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dray horse, Guinness Brewery, Dublin)

Sausage-making (b / w photo)
6024841 Sausage-making (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sausage-making)

Rustic farmyard scene (coloured engraving)
6029779 Rustic farmyard scene (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rustic farmyard scene.); Look and Learn / Elgar Collection

The great American brick machine (engraving)
6030701 The great American brick machine (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The great American brick machine)

Cultivating and processing Hornimans tea in China and shipping it to England (colour litho)
6030958 Cultivating and processing Hornimans tea in China and shipping it to England (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Women peeling kola nuts, Nigeria (b / w photo)
6029900 Women peeling kola nuts, Nigeria (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Women peeling kola nuts)

Sorting the Christmas mail at the General Post Office, London, Christmas Eve, 1892 (litho)
6014216 Sorting the Christmas mail at the General Post Office, London, Christmas Eve, 1892 (litho) by Ward, Enoch (1859-1922); Private Collection; (add.info)

Disguises used by Parisian detective Paul Jaume (litho)
6014086 Disguises used by Parisian detective Paul Jaume (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Disguises used by Parisian detective Paul Jaume)

Marie-Francois Goron, Chief of the Paris Detective Police, in his office (litho)
6014081 Marie-Francois Goron, Chief of the Paris Detective Police, in his office (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Marie-Francois Goron)

Granite working, turning a column (b / w photo)
6013789 Granite working, turning a column (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Granite working, turning a column)

Man selling fish, Egypt (b / w photo)
6033690 Man selling fish, Egypt (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Man selling fish, Egypt)

Making masks for a Christmas pantomime (engraving)
6032216 Making masks for a Christmas pantomime (engraving) by Friston, David Henry (fl.1853-82); Private Collection; (add.info.: Making masks for a Christmas pantomime)

Factory under workers control, Russian Revolution, 1917 (colour litho)
6033365 Factory under workers control, Russian Revolution, 1917 (colour litho) by Carrey, (fl.1900) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Factory under workers control, Russian Revolution, 1917)

Protecting apple trees from attack by caterpillars in an orchard in the Netherlands (chromolitho)
6033214 Protecting apple trees from attack by caterpillars in an orchard in the Netherlands (chromolitho) by European School

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From shoeing horses to harvesting crops, it has evolved through the ages. In 1844, artist Edwin Henry Landseer captured the essence of labor in his masterpiece. Fast forward to 1938, where the Chevrolet El Camino SS 454 became a symbol of hard work and power on wheels. Picture No. 11772077 showcases the timeless beauty of the Range Rover Mk. 1 Classic, a vehicle that effortlessly combines luxury and utility. But it's not just about machines; humans too have played their part in shaping our world. The Land Rover Defender TD5 stands as a testament to human ingenuity and resilience in challenging terrains like Polkanuggo Quarry in Cornwall (1903-1904). John Deere combine harvesters revolutionized agriculture by efficiently gathering barley crops, filling trailers pulled by tractors with golden grains. The Land Rover Freelander 2 represents modern-day versatility - a reliable companion for both work and adventure alike. Traveling across continents, we stumble upon Sheela-na-Gig on the church wall of Killinaboy in County Clare, Ireland (Picture No. 10889724). This mysterious sculpture reminds us that even ancient civilizations recognized the importance of fertility and productivity. Lastly, let's not forget about air travel. The Galley aboard Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (1933) demonstrates how aviation has become an integral part of global trade and transportation systems. In all its forms - whether it be manual labor or technological advancements - working is what propels us forward as individuals and societies alike.