Slovenly Peter, or, Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks illustrated by Hoffman HeinrichSlovenly Peter, or, Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks illustrated by Hoffman HeinrichMan and Woman at a Spinning Wheel, Pieter Pietersz. (I), c. 1560 – c. 1570. Despite their individualized features, it is uncertain whether the depiction of this elegantly dressed couple was intended as a portrait. The scene nevertheless carries a clear message. The man holding a tankard is seducing the young woman, who stares directly at us. She must choose between the spinning wheel and the tankard, between virtue and vice.Portrait of a Woman, possibly Anne Codde, Maarten van Heemskerck, 1529Boris Dekhterev – Sleeping BeautySpinster in een interieur, Jan van Halbeeck, 1600 – 1630Wevende vrouw, Jan van Halbeeck (possibly copy after), 1610 – c. 1680Frigga Spinning the Clouds (1909) by John Charles Dollman (England, 1851–1934). The name ‘Friday’ comes from Old English meaning ‘day of Frig’De spinster, Nicolaes Maes, 1652 – 1662Peasant Woman Spinning, Thomas Wijck, 1640 – 1677Vrouw aan spinnewiel, Justus Chevillet, after Johann Kaspar Heilmann, 1762Spinning young woman, Jan Weissenbruch, 1832 – 1880Henry Herbert La Thangue Some Poor People SewingSpinster at her work, Leopold Löwenstam, 1852 – 1898The Juvenile almanack, or, Series of monthly emblems c1822-1824 spinningMermaid of Edam spinning in a house, 1403, anonymous, 1643 – 1645Spinning woman talking to woman, Johannes Alexander Rudolf Best, 1823The spinning set up is not quite right in this illustration. The spinster would not spin the basic flax straight into a handy ball. First spin one ply onto the spool, then ply individual strands. Then wash. Then dry on a niddy noddy. Then someone holds the skeins as you wind it into a ball. Alternatively you can ball from the niddy noddy. Plus, that castle wheel seems to be missing a bobbin and flyer.Nikifor Rashchektayev – The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish spinningAlfred Kappes (1850–1994)Fausto (The Devil) by Charles Gounod (1818-1893). According to Scottish folklore, tailoring was the only trade the devil could not learn. Tailors would not take him on as an apprentice, so he didn’t know to tie a knot in the thread before pulling it through fabric. Sewing for the devil was a Sisyphean task because the thread always came straight through the fabric.Plate from Dickens’s children by Jessie Willcox Smith. Published 1912‘Woman Sewing.’ (1903) Joseph Stella, an Italian born American artistSpencer Gore’s painting depicts his wife Mollie seated at her sewing table in a vividly coloured room at 6 Cambrian Road in Richmond, London in 1914Peggy Ryan’s 1936 portrait of Dodie Masterman which won the Ida Nettleship prize at the SladeJack and Jill and Other Nursery Rhymes 1958 Crosspatch draw the latch sit by the fire and spinFarm with spinning woman, Richard Adam, 1654 – c. 1720Woman spinning in front of a house, Adriaen van Ostade, 1652Shepherdess spinning, Paul van Somer (II), 1670 – 1697Woman with distaff and a reel in the hands, Jacques Callot, 1630 – 1661Living room with son Jantje and spinning slave Flora, Jan Brandes, 1784Halloween A Holiday Book by Lillie Patterson, illustrated by Gil Miret (1963)Frederick Richardson, illustrator, spinningSvetlana Kim, Spindle, shuttle and needleCover of the July 1909 issue of Good Housekeeping magazineHome Arts Magazine April 1936‘The Seamstresses.’ Raphael Soyer portrayed working-class people during the Great Depression and afterHome Arts Magazine March 1936Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff (1824-1882, Dutch) Two Ladies At Their Sewing (not dated)Richard Edward Miller (American painter, 1875-1943) Woman SewingEdouard Vuillard (French 1868–1940) The Binder 1934Elizabeth Shippen Green, The Thousand Quilt, Harper’s Magazine, December 1904Boys’ Life Magzine February 1922sewing limerick with illustration by Edmund DulacRichard Scarry’s Chipmunk’s ABC by Roberta Miller, illustrated by Richard Scarry (1963)Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Lillian Hoban (1971)The Sewing Lesson, Jessie Willcox Smith, 1909Henri Lebasque – Marthe et Nono cousant dans un intérieur, c. 1910. Oil on canvasThe Cat Woman and the Spinning Wheel and Other Stories Doctor Bird Reading Series set in JamaicaGeorge Sand The Pink Cloud wool Svetlana Kim 1982Hubert von Herkomer – Eventide – A Scene in the Westminster Union 1878. It depicts women at St James’s Workhouse, in Soho, London. Although sparsely furnished and decorated, Herkomer depicts the workhouse as a relatively comfortable place. Most of the women are sewing. They are painted as ‘crone’ archetypes, and although their mouths are closed, it appears they have long since lost most or all of their teeth.Phoebe WahlIllustration by Kawakami Shiro ( 川上四郎 絵) forKodomo no kuni (Children’s Land), c1920s and 30sBertha Wegmann (Danish, 1847 – 1926)Leon Frederic (Belgian,1856-1940) Lace MakingFloris Arntzenius, (1864 – 1925) Daily chores
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Norman Rockwell – Threading the needle (1922)Samuel Uhrdin. He was born in Siljansnäs Dalarna SwedenIn-The-Orphanage-at-Katwijk-Binnen-by-David-Adolph-Constant-Artz-c1870-c1890-3000×2232by Anton Pieck 1895-1987Anton Franciscus Pieck (19 April 1895 – 24 November 1987)Arthur Hacker – A Difficulty 1888Woman Sewing, Carl Larsson, 1912‘Young Mother Sewing (1900)’ painted by Mary CassattTHE BITING EYE (1960) André FrançoisVictoria Sewing Machine advertising lithograph. Artist Imp. B. Sirven, circa 1903, Franceby Marcus Campbell, 1952, sewing machineArt by J. Frederick Smith 1947Alfred Smith (1854-1932, France) Women Mending ClothesFrom the 1944 book What Miranda Knew illustrated by Elizabeth Orton JonesNans van Leeuwen (1900 – 1995), Dutch illustrator.Frank Holl – The Song of the Shirt 1874Peter GutCarl Larsson, (1853-1919), Sweden The girl weaving red gold bands1933 July1935 July, cover by Roger Duvoisin, who also illustrated children’s booksKinuko Craft – Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave Princess With A Spindle, 1896Brünhild Schlötter for Sleeping Beauty c1938, castle wheel for a spinning wheel, less commonly depicted in picture booksMargaret at the Spinning Wheel, from Goethe’s Faust illustrated by Willy Pogány (1908)Thomas Wilmer Dewing – The SpinnerGeorge Sand The Pink Cloud spinning Svetlana Kim 1982World War 2 poster sew for victoryStevan Dohanos 1946
The header illustration is a poster from World War 2.
