18th Century Wheelbarrows
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Last updated: Nov 14, 2025
A page on wheelbarrows from the 13th-17th centuries can be found elsewhere on this website.
- 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
- Man with barrow and dog
- 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
- Figures by a farm
- Standing man with a wheelbarrow by Jordanus Hoorn
- A wheelbarrow and another wheelbarrow drawn by Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers
