Work

Ford Madox Brown
Work
ca. 1852
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Marianne von Werefkin
Washerwomen
ca. 1909
tempera on paper
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Gerard Middendorp
Woman washing Clothes
1913
gelatin silver print
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder
after Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Kitchen-Maid cleaning Pans
1740
etching and engraving
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Anonymous German Artist
Burroughs Additionsmaschinen
ca. 1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Domenico Beccafumi
Goldsmithing and Silversmithing
ca. 1540-50
woodcut
(illustration to De Re Metallica by Agricola)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Henry Edward Tidmarsh
Velveteen-cutting at Platts' Works, Warrington
1893-94
drawing
Manchester Art Gallery

Valentina Kulagina
Women Workers strengthen the Shock Brigade
1931
lithograph (poster)
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern

Max Liebermann
Women manufacturing Preserves
1879
oil on canvas
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
Pharmacist with Mortar and Pestle
ca. 1770
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Anne-Claude de Caylus and Étienne Fessard
after Edme Bouchardon
The Barber
1742
etching and engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Niels Adam Fischer
Woman making Tea
1903
photogravure
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Bernardo Strozzi
Giving the Thirsty to Drink
(one of the Seven Acts of Mercy)
ca. 1620-30
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Eugène Carrière
Le Fondeur
1900
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous Swiss Artist
Eugen Steinmann
(coal-merchant in Zürich)
ca. 1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Guido Reni
Story of Samson
1608
fresco
Sala della Nozze Aldobrandini, Musei Vaticani

Cleopatra

     Where is my lord? Where is he? 

Charmion                                        There he lies,

     And dead Ventidius by him.

Cleopatra

     My fears were prophets; I am come too late.

     Oh that accursed Alexas!                                          (Runs to him)

Antony                                  Art thou living?

     Or am I dead before I knew, and thou

     The first kind ghost that meets me?

Cleopatra                                            Help me seat him.

     Send quickly, send for help.                  (They place him in a chair)

Antony                                      I am answered.

     We live both. Sit thee down, my Cleopatra:

     I'll make the most I can of life, to stay

     A moment more with thee.

Cleopatra

     How is it with you?

Antony                         'Tis as with a man

     Removing in a hurry, all packed up

     But one dear jewel that his haste forgot,

     And he, for that, returns upon the spur:

     So I come back for thee.

Cleopatra

     Too long, you Heavens, you have been cruel to me:

     Now show your mended faith, and give me back

     His fleeting life!

Antony                    It will not, my love,

     I keep my soul by force,

     Say but thou art not false.

Cleopatra                               'Tis now too late

     To say I'm true: I'll prove it, and die with you.

     Unknown to me, Alexas feigned my death;

     Which, when I knew, I hasted to prevent

     This fatal consequence. 

– John Dryden, All for Love (1677)