18th Century Wheelbarrows
Last updated: March 4, 2024
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Title page, Flora Parisiensis, 1776
- 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
