Brooms shown in various contexts, largely domestic. Several are sufficiently detailed to provide some hints at construction.
- A figure holding a broom, psalter (Douce 6, fol. 54r), c. 1320-1330
- A man pours ashes out of a sieve while another sweeps them away, the Taymouth Hours (British Library Yates Thompson 13, fol. 110), 2nd quarter of the 14th century
- Three orders, Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove (PML M.691, fol. 119r), c. 1405-1410
- Annunciation by Robert Campin, 1420s
- Border, The Hours of Marguerite d'Orléans (BNF Latin 1156 B, fol. 135), c. 1426
- Cuntzlin, Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317.2, fol. 55r), 1434
- Valerius Maximus writing, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 287), third quarter of the 15th century
- The birth of Jupiter, Histoires de Troyes (BNF Fr. 59, fol. 1), second half of the 15th century
- Heintz, Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317.2, fol. 96v), 1478
- December, a book of hours (PML M.6, fol. 13r), c. 1480
- The servant, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 9140, fol. 107), 1480
- Visitation, The Hours of Jean Robertet (PML M.834, fol. 40r), c. 1465-1468
- Fresco in Vienna, c. 1500-1525
- Comic feast by Jan Mandijn
- Drawing of witches (?) by Hieronymus Bosch
- Caspar Engelhardt, Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317b.2, fol. 16r), 1563
- A visit to the wet nurse by Marten van Cleve
- Barbara Stromairin, Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317b.2, fol. 62r), 1599
- Courtyard of a House in Delft by Pieter de Hooch, 1658
- Woman and Maid in a Courtyard by Pieter de Hooch, c. 1660
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