Sweeping Collection

The March of Intellect, (1828?). Artist: Robert Seymour
The March of Intellect, (1828?); showing a juggernaut figure with London University on its head and balloons issuing from its pipe, sweeping and kicking to one side lawyers, vicars, and quack doctors

Multicoloured beach huts on the long sweeping beach of Llanbedrog, Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Advertisement for the Western Electric vacuum cleaner with a women patiently cleaning the carpet around her snoozing husband. Lets hope that cigarette falls into his lap and wakes him up. Date: c.1924

The Kop at Anfield football stadium, the home of Liverpool F. C. December 1966
The Kop at Anfield football stadium, the home of Liverpool F.C. December 1966

Bear Feeds Fish to Cubs Date: 1948

Victorian London boys begging and sweeping street, 1870
Vintage engraving of Victorian London boys begging and sweeping street. Mothers Last Words, Mrs Sewell, c.1870

Birthday card, Chimney Sweep Dog. mid-20th century

Stage model for the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner (1813-83)
XZL151825 Stage model for the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner (1813-83) (painted card) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Railway Cleaner
26th October 1907: A man sweeping a Great Central Railway carriage, at Marylebone. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dunkeld, 19th century (engraving)
6199617 Dunkeld, 19th century (engraving) by Cumming, Gershom Gourlay (1810-98); 34.8x47.8 cm; The McManus, Dundee, UK; Dundee Art Galleries and Museums

Downward came Pegasus, in wide sweeping circles (colour litho)
5223689 Downward came Pegasus, in wide sweeping circles (colour litho) by Mann, Merlyn (fl.1910-35); Private Collection; (add.info.: Downward came Pegasus, in wide sweeping circles)

Eve-of-the-Wedding Party, 1889. Artist: Alexei Ivanovich Korzukhin
Eve-of-the-Wedding Party, 1889. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Cover design, The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte, illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Showing three children playing on a makeshift sailing boat constructed with a chair

Comic postcard, Woman in expensive underwear chats to cleaning lady Date: 20th century

A sweeper boy, 1850
3478710 A sweeper boy, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a sweeper boy holding out his hat for payment. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Q le balayage du Quartier - "Military Alphabet" 1837 (engraving)
DUV4215693 Q le balayage du Quartier - "Military Alphabet" 1837 (engraving); (add.info.: Q le balayage du Quartier - Engraving 1837 in " Alphabet militaire" Lithographs by Clement)

The Marchioness, c.1920 (colour litho)
1122858 The Marchioness, c.1920 (colour litho) by Reynolds, Frank (1876-1953); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Old Curiosity Shop published by Hodder & Stoughton c.1920).

A maid using an improved dustpan
5310254 A maid using an improved dustpan; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a maid using an improved dustpan which enabled her to hold the pan with her foot while sweeping dust into it with the broom)

Maids from adjoining terraced houses making the most of ''sweeping the steps'' as an opportunity for a
3478238 Maids from adjoining terraced houses making the most of ''sweeping the steps'' as an opportunity for a good gossip

Engraving depicting a maid sweeping the floor with a broom, 19th century
5308657 Engraving depicting a maid sweeping the floor with a broom, 19th century; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a maid sweeping the floor with a broom)

Capital letters Plate in "Picturesque alphabet or New informative and picturesque alphabet", 1892 (engraving)
DUV4220493 Capital letters Plate in "Picturesque alphabet or New informative and picturesque alphabet", 1892 (engraving); 27x17.5 cm; (add.info)

Searchlights of British destroyers sweeping the Thames estuary, London and guarding Britain's food supplies during
3252858 Searchlights of British destroyers sweeping the Thames estuary, London and guarding Britain's food supplies during WWI (litho); Private Collection; (add.info)

Boy crossing sweeper who would earn a few pence by sweeping the road clean of horse droppings and any other such dirt
533893 Boy crossing sweeper who would earn a few pence by sweeping the road clean of horse droppings and any other such dirt

Practical Religion
Philip Sutton

Woman Sweeping the Yard outside the Inn at Vaugirard, 1865. Creator: Leon Bonvin
Woman Sweeping the Yard outside the Inn at Vaugirard, 1865

Shinchunagon Taira no Tomomori Sweeping the Deck, 1886. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Shinchunagon Taira no Tomomori Sweeping the Deck, 1886. From Yoshitoshi's Warriors Trembling with Courage. In May 1185, Taira no Tomomori killed himself in the Battle of Dan no ura

Un locataire qui a eu un oubli le 1er janvier, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un locataire qui a eu un oubli le 1er janvier, 1847. A tenant who forgot something on January 1st. [Landlady brushing dust towards tenant who has neglected to pay his rent

Ice fun on the corner of Spui and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, 1773-1838. Creators: Anthonie van den Bos, Jan van Kessel
Ice fun on the corner of Spui and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, 1773-1838

Maid sweeping the hallway of a house, 1837. Creator: Louis Henri de Fontenay
Maid sweeping the hallway of a house, 1837

The interior of Saint Bavo's Church in Haarlem, 1660-1703. Creator: Isaak van Nickele
The interior of Saint Bavo's Church in Haarlem, 1660-1703. The Grote Kerk (or St.-Bavokerk) was consecrated as a cathedral in 1559

Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908

View from across street of a woman cleaning the sidewalk, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
View from across street of a woman cleaning the sidewalk, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

A Village Scene in India [verso], 1814/1824. Creator: George Chinnery
A Village Scene in India [verso], 1814/1824

The George Inn, Beaconsfield, 1908. Creator: Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
The George Inn, Beaconsfield, 1908

The sweeper, c.1670. Creator: Pieter Janssens Elinga
The sweeper, c.1670

Child, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Child, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Child, 1913

Women Admiring Peonies, c. 1789/1801. Creator: Katsukawa Shuncho
Women Admiring Peonies, c. 1789/1801. Detail from a larger artwork

Sleeve-Letter Takasago (Sodefumi Takasago), no. 2 from a series of 12 prints...plays, c. 1716/35
Sleeve-Letter Takasago (Sodefumi Takasago), no. 2 from a series of 12 prints depicting parodies of plays, c. 1716/35

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

2018 German GP
HOCKENHEIMRING, GERMANY - JULY 21: Gravel is cleared from the circuit by vans carrying brushes after an off-track moment by Marcus Ericsson

Eminönü
Murat BAKMAZ

clean city 4
Roswitha Schleicher-Schwarz

The art of sweeping
Lou Urlings

Comic postcard, Two women talking over fence
Comic postcard, Two women talking over the garden fence. Well, the only pleasure I have in life now is taking my boots off! Date: 20th century

MRS. MARGARET THATCHER SWEEPS UP OUTSIDE HER HOME IN CHEYNE WALK, CHELSEA - 2ND FEBRUARY 1975. (75-266)

Porters John Healy and and Robert White armed with brooms pause to look at the new magpie sweeper as driver Alfred Warner drives past in Central Station, Glasgow. 16th April 1956

A Woman Sweeping up Her Love Letters, 1725-1770. 1725-1770. Creator: Suzuki Harunobu
A Woman Sweeping up Her Love Letters, 1725-1770

Humour gentility Cruikshank 19th century cartoon
This is a cartoon etching by the well-known Victorian social caricaturist / cartoonist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878), dated May 20th, 1828

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"Capturing the Beauty: Multicoloured beach huts on the long sweeping beach of Llanbedrog, Llyn Peninsula" "Effortless Elegance: Advertisement for the Western Electric vacuum cleaner with a woman patiently cleaning" "A Glimpse into History: Victorian London boys begging and sweeping street, 1870" "Inspiring Soaring Heights: Downward came Pegasus, in wide sweeping circles (colour litho)" "A Whimsical Celebration: Birthday card featuring a Chimney Sweep Dog" "Theatrical Grandeur: Stage model for the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner (1813-83)" "Dedicated to Cleanliness: Railway Cleaner ensuring spotless tracks and platforms" "The Roar of Passionate Support: The Kop at Anfield football stadium, home of Liverpool F. C. December 1966" "Preserving Timeless Charm: Dunkeld captured in a 19th-century engraving with its sweeping landscapes" "A Visionary Journey Ahead: The March of Intellect shaping society's future (1828?) by Robert Seymour" "Eve-of-the-Wedding Revelry: A glimpse into an enchanting celebration in 1889 by Alexei Ivanovich Korzukhin" "Unleashing Imagination on High Seas.