Additional examples from the mid-15th through early 17th centuries are available through The Archimedes Project Machine Drawings Database. See also Stefan's Florilegium.
- Martyrdom of St. John, Bible (BNF Fr. 403, fol. 2), c. 1250
- St. John the Evangelist in a vat of boiling oil in the Apocalypse Manuscript (Getty Ludwig III 1, fol. 1), c. 1255-1260
- The martyrdom of St. John (fol. 63v) and St. Laurent (fol. 77v), The Picture-Book of Madame Marie (BNF NAF 16251), c. 1285-1290
- Herr Jakob von Warte, Manesse Codex (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 46v), 1300-1330
- A man with bellows at a fire under a three-legged cauldron, the Smithfield Decretals (Brit. Lib. Royal 10 E IV, fol. 142r), c. 1300-1340
- Martyrdom of St. John, Bible (BNF Fr. 13096, fol. 1v), 1313
- The martyrdom of St. Barnaby (fol. 183) and St. Laurent (fol. 211), The Lives of the Saints (BNF Fr. 183), first half of the 14th century
- Fols
70v and 157r of the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130), 1325-1340
- A blacksmith, The book of the treasure (BNF Fr. 571, fol. 66v), c. 1326
- The martyrdom of St. Barnaby (fol. 69v), St. Pantaleon (fol. 92v), and St. Denis (fol. 206v) The Lives of the Saints (BNF Fr. 185), second quarter of the 14th century
- A woman blacksmith and a man (probably Hedroit and his wife) in The Holkham Bible (British Library MS Add. 47680), c. 1327-1335
- The Romance of Alexander (Bodl. 264), 1338-1344, fols. 84r, 164v, 165r, and 171v
- Two blacksmiths, Liber Astrologiae (Brit. Lib. Sloane 3983, f. 5), second half of the 14th century
- Three men tortured in a furnace in The Lives of the Saints (BNF Fr. 1584, fol. 131), c. 1377
A below, whanne he is opened, he takiþ in wijnd, & whanne he is closid, he puttiþ out wijnd & blowiþ þe fier. Lanfranc's Science of Cirurgie (Bodl. Ashmole 1396) |
- The martyrdom of St. John, Bible (BNF Ned. 3, fol. 1), 14th-15th century
- Detail from the February fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410
- Pride (fol. 50v), Hell (fol. 118), punishment of the misers (fol. 122v), punishment of the impious (fol. 124v), in The Pilgrimage of Human Life/The Pilgrimage of the Soul (BNF Fr. 376), second quarter of the 15th century
- The Holy Family at supper, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.917, fol. 151), c. 1440
- Vulcan forges the arms of Aeneas, Virgil's Aeneid (BNF Latin 7939 A, fol. 156), 1458
- Man put to a question under torture, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 289, fol. 375v), second half of the 15th century
- Several martyrdom scenes in the Speculum historiale, 1463, including St. Seraphia (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 379), St. Eustace (fol. 380), St. Laurent (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 31), St. Vincent (fol. 83v), St. Faith (fol. 85v), and St. Laurent (fol. 437v)
- The martyrdom of St. Laurent, The Golden Legend (BNF Fr. 245, fol. 34), c. 1480-1490
- The martyrdom of St. John (fol. 32) and St. Vincent (fol. 54v), The Golden Legend (BNF Fr. 244), c. 1480-1490
- Man with bellows, c. 1486-1500
- Vulcan, Êchecs amoreux (BNF Fr. 143, fol. 148), c. 1496-1498
- Some of the smiths in the Mendel Hausbuch, including a smith (1426), a farrier (1427), a farrier (1432), a farrier (1467), and a nailsmith (1529)
- Bellows for raising water in a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci (Codex Atlanticus, fol. 5r), c. 1478-1518
- John boiled in oil, Hours of Henry VIII (PML H.8, fol. 7), c. 1500
- Detail from an altarpiece with the story of St. Catherine, c. 1500-1510
- The Bellows-Repairer by Hieronymus Bosch
- A set of bellows from the first half of the 16th century with a scene of the Flight into Egypt
- Bellows, The Tudor Pattern Book (Ashmole 1504, fol. 5v), c. 1520-1530
- A 16th century Dutch engraving ("WE HEBBEN PANT")
- The Alchemist by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1558-1559 (also reversed, c. 1584?)
- A goldsmith's workshop and another goldsmith's workshop by Étienne Delaune, 1576
- Bellows, 17th century
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