Distaff posters & prints

Distaff Fusus Anonymous

Interior of a barn with an old woman at a distaff Isack van Ostade

Madonna and Child with a Cross-shaped Distaff, 1570s Luis de Morales

The Distaff Worker, 1878 Frederick Goodhall

Madonna and Child with a Distaff, 1570s Luis de Morales

Cordwainers' Hall, Distaff Lane, City of London Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

An Old Woman Spinning French School

Peasant cottage interior, possibly Netherlands or northern France, 17th century Unknown

A Woman Spinning David III Ryckaert

The Spinner 1889 Vincent van Gogh

Spinner from the Auvergne, 1830-99 Unknown

Figures by a tent, 1653 Adriaen van de Velde

Le Florentin à la chasse, ca. 1654 Stefano della Bella

An Old Woman Spinning Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Woman Spinning Thomas Wijck

The Spinner, Goatherd of the Auvergne, 1868-69 Jean-Francois Millet

The Lacemakers; Spetsknypplerskor, 1894 Anders Leonard Zorn

Tired Fingers, 1881 Madena Moore

Afternoon Pasttimes Paul Alfred de Curzon

Italian Girl with a Spinning Dress Friedrich Wilhelm Mueller

Hercules at the Feet of Omphale Gustave Boulanger

Chestnut Burner Jacob Louys

Young girls Anonymous

Adam Ploughing from the Dance of Death, 1651 Wenceslaus Hollar

Plate 44 from 'Los Caprichos': They spin finely, 1799 Francisco Goya

Mary in the House of St. John, 1858 Dante Gabriel Charles Rossetti

Madame des Trois Etats, caricature on the Three Estates of France before the Revolution French School

Adam and Eve at Work Master Bertram of Minden

Costume of the commonality Anonymous

The Image of Dame Astrology with the Three Fates (after) French School

The Three Fates: Lachesis, Atropos and Klotho, 1513 Hans Baldung

The Distrest Poet William Hogarth

Stafford - Distant View from East: water colour painting, nd [?19th cent] School English

Measuring the distance of an inaccessible object by triangulation using a hinged staff, 1617-1619 Unknown

Finding the angular distance between two edges of a wood using a cross-staff, 1617-1619 Unknown

Mistress Quickly, Nym and Bardolph, from Shakespeare's Falstaff plays Charles Cattermole