Labourer Gallery

A labourer is a person who performs manual labour for an employer

The Clay Pit, Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
Oil on canvas, Newlyn School, 1923. View of Leswidden China Clay Works near St Just. This painting shows the harsh, labour-intensive working conditions of a china clay pit

Country Round Dixton Manor, c.1725 (oil on canvas) (detail of 18102)
CHE68504 Country Round Dixton Manor, c.1725 (oil on canvas) (detail of 18102) by English School, (18th century); The Cheltenham Trust and Cheltenham Borough Council; (add.info)

Soviet communist propaganda poster which reads For the Completion of the Five Year Plan in Four Years!

Hong Kong street scene, 1890s C016 / 4499
Hong Kong street scene. Pedestrians, carts, rickshaws and signs in both Chinese script and English on a hill street in Hong Kong in the 1890s. At the time, this area was a British colony

Four-horse Ploughing team at work - South Downs, East Sussex
Sons of the soil - A four-horse Ploughing team at work in on the South Downs - East Sussex. Date: circa 1920s

Social / Knights Hill 18C
A gentleman farmer on his horse at Knights Hill, Surrey, seat of Lord Thurlow. The farm labourer carries a harvest barrel

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

A Shetland Peat Carrier
A Woman of the Shetland Islands carring turves of peat in a wicker back pack basket. She does her knitting whilst she walks (possible some distance). Date: circa 1910s

Peter I, the Great (1672-1725) at Deptford Dockyard, 1857 (oil on canvas)
RHC9705 Peter I, the Great (1672-1725) at Deptford Dockyard, 1857 (oil on canvas) by Maclise, Daniel (Croquis, Alfred) (1806-70); 152.3x243.7 cm; Royal Holloway

The Wood Cutter (oil on board)
CH378341 The Wood Cutter (oil on board) by Landseer, Edwin (1802-73); 50x61 cm; Private Collection; Photo eChristies Images; English, out of copyright

Stalls that display the products of many climes in the fruit depsartment at Covent Garden (b / w photo)
3637557 Stalls that display the products of many climes in the fruit depsartment at Covent Garden (b/w photo) by English Photographer

St Anthony the Great, patron saint of basket makers (chromolitho)
1094000 St Anthony the Great, patron saint of basket makers (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: St Anthony the Great, patron saint of basket makers)

Picking violets near Parma, Italy (chromolitho)
2782613 Picking violets near Parma, Italy (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Picking violets near Parma, Italy)

Cast iron tunnel lining MTA01_01_16
QUEENSWAY TUNNEL, LIVERPOOL, Merseyside. A man at work on the construction of the Queensway Tunnel, showing the cast iron lining in the under-river section of the main tunnel

Pioneer flatboat on the Ohio River, c.1845 (engraving)
PNP248814 Pioneer flatboat on the Ohio River, c.1845 (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark American Pictures; American, out of copyright

Soviet communist poster 1930s, urging workers to join the Tractor Shock Brigades for spring sowing

Kaiser Wilhelm II at Kiel shipyard, Germany, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, visiting Kiel shipyard, Germany, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 2 October 1918

Woodcutter at Findon, near Worthing c1911. from the Walter Gardiner Photography Collection PP/WSL/WGP000009

Interior of a Dorsetshire Labourers Cottage
Interior view of a peasants cottage in Dorset in 1846, accompanying an article reporting on the poverty and squalor of some villages in the county

Gleaners at Chambaudoin, 1857 (oil on canvas)
XIR231251 Gleaners at Chambaudoin, 1857 (oil on canvas) by Hedouin, Pierre Edmond Alexandre (1820-89); Musee Municipal, Villefranche-sur-Saone

MS CCC 157 p.382 The visions dreamt by King Henry I in Normandy in 1130, from the Worcester Chronicle
CCC95504 MS CCC 157 p.382 The visions dreamt by King Henry I in Normandy in 1130, from the Worcester Chronicle, c.1130-40 (vellum) (detail of 95503) by English School

Man ploughing with gas mask, September 1939
Man photographed as he ploughs his field in Surrey. The Sphere notes his gas mask which he hangs from the handle of his plough. Date: 1939

A Stone Quarry, 1833 (colour litho)
STC169232 A Stone Quarry, 1833 (colour litho) by Kretzschmer, H. (fl.1883) (after); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; German, out of copyright

Egyptian palm tree, 16th century artwork. The fruits of this palm tree are being harvested. The palm tree most commonly cultivated in this way is the date palm tree, which has sweet edible fruit

Ms. Lat 209 fol.11r The Professions, from De Sphaera (vellum)
XIR308310 Ms. Lat 209 fol.11r The Professions, from De Sphaera (vellum) by De Predis, Cristoforo (1440/45-86) (attributed to); Biblioteca Estense, Modena

Farming / Mowing 1899
A mowing scene: the mower sharpens his blade with a stone

Bus driver (b / w photo)
3637514 Bus driver (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bus driver. Illustration for Wonderful London by St John Adcock (Fleetway, c 1930)

Archduke Maximilian of Austria visiting an armourer (engraving)
3646316 Archduke Maximilian of Austria visiting an armourer (engraving) by Burgkmair, Hans (c.1473-1531) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Archduke Maximilian of Austria visiting an armourer)

Marmottes administratives. Illustration for Le Pele-Mele, 1906 (colour litho)
3101415 Marmottes administratives. Illustration for Le Pele-Mele, 1906 (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Marmottes administratives)

A Welsh coal mine (litho)
3622182 A Welsh coal mine (litho) by Lacy, Charles John de (c.1860-1936) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Welsh coal mine)

Two boys throwing snowballs at a chimney sweep, New Years greetings card. (chromolitho)
6031470 Two boys throwing snowballs at a chimney sweep, New Years greetings card. (chromolitho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Modernisation of the street jobs, the knife grinder in his car, illustration
XIR346516 Modernisation of the street jobs, the knife grinder in his car, illustration from Le Petit Journal, supplement illustre, 3rd September 1911 (colour litho) by French School

The Gleaner, 1877 (oil on canvas)
XIR155369 The Gleaner, 1877 (oil on canvas) by Breton, Jules (1827-1906); Musee des Beaux-Arts, Arras, France; French, out of copyright

The Plough Team, 1905 (w / c on paper)
XPG359497 The Plough Team, 1905 (w/c on paper) by Atkinson, John (1863-1924); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Plasterer, c.1807 (oil on panel)
XYC146929 Plasterer, c.1807 (oil on panel) by Cranch, John (1751-1821); 14.5x16 cm; Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA; English, out of copyright

Labourers, 1781. Creator: George Stubbs
Labourers, 1781

Plumbago preparation, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Plumbago (Leadwort) preparation, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. 19th ce
Textile Industry. 19th century. Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. Women working in the roving. Colored engraving

African American shoeshine boy, c.1901 (b/w photo)
2920935 African American shoeshine boy, c.1901 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Title on photograph Nuthin doin Photograph by V.G)

Making the Shoreham Railroad, c.1840 (w/c on paper)
7389747 Making the Shoreham Railroad, c.1840 (w/c on paper) by Unknown Artist, (19th century); 22x29 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire, UK; (add.info.: Arist: Unknown)

Construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, c.1835 (pencil on paper; composite sketch)
7389722 Construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, c.1835 (pencil on paper; composite sketch) by Bourne, John Cooke (1814-96); 22x28 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

Pithead and Railway, 1840 (pen with wash on paper)
7389715 Pithead and Railway, 1840 (pen with wash on paper) by Carmichael, John Wilson (1800-68) (after); 26x38 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

Collapse, 19th Century (pen with wash on paper)
7389746 Collapse, 19th Century (pen with wash on paper) by Unknown Artist, (19th century); 22x38 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire, UK; (add.info.: Arist: Unknown)

Harvesting sugar cane in Cuba, c.1910 (b/w photo)
2962915 Harvesting sugar cane in Cuba, c.1910 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

Construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, c.1835 (brown ink on paper; composite sketch)
7389712 Construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, c.1835 (brown ink on paper; composite sketch) by Bourne, John Cooke (1814-96); 22x28 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

Construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, c.1835 (pencil with wash on paper; composite sketch)
7389721 Construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, c.1835 (pencil with wash on paper; composite sketch) by Bourne, John Cooke (1814-96); 13x22 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford

Construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, c.1835 (pencil with wash on paper)
7389716 Construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, c.1835 (pencil with wash on paper) by Bourne, John Cooke (1814-96); 14x21 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

Tapping the Furnaces, Middles borogh (sic), c.1870 (wash on paper)
7389708 Tapping the Furnaces, Middles borogh (sic), c.1870 (wash on paper) by Hunt, Alfred William (1830-96); 28x39 cm; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Telford, Shropshire

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A labourer is a person who performs manual labour for an employer. This type of work can include construction, factory, agricultural and domestic jobs, and are typically unskilled workers who are hired to perform physical tasks such as lifting, digging, carrying and cleaning and may also be required to operate machinery or tools in order to complete their job. Labourers usually receive an hourly wage or salary depending on the type of work they do and the amount of experience they have in the field and may also receive benefits such as health insurance and vacation time depending on their employer's policies.