18th Century Watering Cans
Last updated: Jan 7, 2024
Extant examples
- Ceramic watering can made in France in 1732
- Ceramic watering can made in France
- Porcelain watering can with floral decorations made at Vincennes in 1755
- French watering can, c. 1780
- A French copper watering can, late 18th century
Illustrations
- Frontispiece to Miller’s Catalogus plantarum, 1729
- A gardener by Balthasar Denner, 1735 Le Printems
- Le Printems, 1745
- Details of watering cans from Sèvres porcelain: Louvre TH1222, Louvre TH1235, Louvre TH1236
- Frontispiece and tailpiece to a catalogue of pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, 1761
- Agriculture and Rural Economy - Gardening in Diderot’s Encyclopédie, 1762
- The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor’s House by Paul Sandby, c. 1765, and The Norman Gateway and Moat Garden by Paul Sandby, c. 1770
- Two dogs in a farmyard and a putto watering a garden illustrations from Dorat’s Fables nouvelles, 1773
- Procope Demidov by Dmitry Levitzky, 1773
- A man walking on a garden path, illustration from A Pretty Book of Pictures, c. 1773-1779
- Lovers in a garden by Christian Friedrich Fritzsch, 1775
- Conversation between a gardener and Jean Jacques Rousseau in a kitchen garden, illustration from Rousseau’s Œuvres complètes, 1779
- La colonne de la Halle aux grains de l’ancien Hôtel de Soissons by Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
- Children working in a garden, illustration from The Happy Family, c. 1785
- Thomas and William by apple trees, illustration from The Looking Glass for the Mind, c. 1790-1792
- Tintern Abbey by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1794
- Spring: A young man waters plants in a garden, c. 1795-1831
- A girl with a watering can by Paul Sandby, c. 1805, and Sara Hough, Mrs. T. P. Sandby’s Nursery Maid by Paul Sandby, c. 1805
