Bellows Collection

Science / Gillray Satire
New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! A satire on the Royal Institution: Thomas Young experiments on Hippisley, Humphry Davy at the bellows, Rumford by the door

Illustration, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- The building of Saltash Bridge. Date: 1935

How Pianola Works 1912
How the player-piano works - air passes through the holes in the piano-roll and acts on the bellows mechanism, causing a hammer to strike a key

Northumbrian bagpipes and Lowland Scotch bagpipe.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique, Adam and Charles Black

Alchemist at work
Black and white print of the painting, " L Alchimiste" by David Teniers the Younger, dated 1790. HPF/5C/4"

Dressed to Kill 1912
Woman: tailor-made with a narrow skirt, belted long line jacket with bellows pockets & a trilby hat. Man: jodphurs, gaiters or leggings, belted jacket with a pleated back & patch pockets

Swiss Cow Lowing
A Swiss bull, high on an Alpine meadow, bellows breathily

Barbers shop with Monkeys and Cats. Teniers, Abraham (1629-1670). Oil on copper

The Monkey and the Cat
THE MONKEY AND THE CAT A monkey persuades a cat to steal chestnuts roasting on the fire; the monkey eats the nuts and the cat gets the blame

Iron smelting in a furnace, Bronze Age, Kazakhstan area
Craftsmen (blacksmiths) of the Bronze Age in the Kazakhstan area, smelting and shaping metal (iron) using an ancient furnace with bellows. 3000-1200 BCE

Gentleman trying to play footsie with a beauty at the table
Gentleman trying to play footsie with a beauty under the dining table but pressing the wrong foot. More Miseries. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Medieval comedian playing bellows and tongs
Vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle, 14th century manuscript. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

The Alchemist Date: early 19th century

Georgian cartoon, Music Hath Charms, black man playing guitar to a kitchen maid Date: circa 1820s

Comic postcard, A pair of bellows Date: 20th century

Cleaning tea with bellows, air fans, China
Vintage 19th century photograph: Cleaning tea with bellows, China

Metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th century
Forged metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th century. Horses bit, spade and napha or portfolio. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves l Afrique, Paris, 1814

Man and woman lost in the countryside in a night storm with a servant holding a lantern. Miseries of the Country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Man using bellows in front of a fire in a smoky room with a scolding wife and bawling child. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Frontispiece with skeleton of death seated with scythe and globe. Vignettes of death attacking a baby, an invalid, a glutton and a drunkard

King David playing handbells from a 14th century manuscript
King David playing handbells with hammers from a 14th century manuscript of his psalms, with a vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle

Ancient musical instruments including bellows
Foot instrument used by a faun in a Florentine gallery 1, bellows from a relief in the Pallavicini Gardens 2, bagpipe from an ancient basrelief 3, tambourine, castanets and tibia from Greek vases 4

Respiration bellows and foundry mould
Apparatus for restoring those drowning to life with respiration bellows, and foundry moulds for bells, letters, types, etc. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

Chinese tinker with portable forge, bellows and tools, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

Furnace for making cannon balls in the days of Trafalgar. circa 1805

Cats having a picnic on a German postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Village blacksmith 1870
Village smithy stands in front of the open forge. Date: 1870

Authropoglossos St. Jamess Hall, Piccadilly
Authropoglossos or mechanical large vocalist dummy head, made of wax and ornamented with that profusion of hair and beard, in the month he wears a large tin funnel

Steam Boiler Making at Vulcan Foundry, Glasgow 1843
Construction of a large steam boiler for a boat at the Vulcan Foundry, Clyde, Glasgow. A large pair of bellows stands at the front of the scene. Date: 1843

Photographic studio 1878
Photographer with bellows style camara taking a photograph of a posed victorian woman. Date: 1878

Pair of bellows with comic verse on a Christmas card
Pair of bellows with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Lancaster & Sons bellows cameras 1890
Advertisement for 19th century bellows cameras, pocket combination aneroid barometers, selection of scientific equipment compound microscope, achromatic microscope

Children by a kitchen hearth
Two children and a dog pictured gazing at the burning embers of a fire in a kitchen inglenook. Other kitchen furniture and equipment include an armchair, bellows and a basket of vegetables

Interior of an English church organ.. Interior mechanism of an English church organ showing pipes, bellows, stops, keys, choir, swell and great organ

Water-powered furnace bellows
A water wheel operates two sets of bellows to keep two furnaces burning hotly. Date: 1588

The Elements (Fire), by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760)

Old Rose - A Cavaliers Drinking Song - " Now we re met like jovial fellows, let us do as wise men tell us, Sing Old Rose & burn the bellows

A Co. Antrim Kitchen With Fireplace for Coal and Turf
A Co. Antrim Kitchen With Fireplace forCoal and Turf - an interior shot showing a woman using bellows on an open fire with griddle and pot. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim)

Christmas card in the shape of bellows decorated with white and purple flowers. circa 1890s

Cupids and hearts on nine Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

French Girls School 1820
A French school for young ladies - this particular lesson is taking place in the open air. Date: circa 1820

House Repairs / Bellows /
General house repairs - one man is up a ladder and another is using bellows. Date: 18th century

Main Street, Bellows Falls, Vermont, USA. Date: circa 1940

Cartoon, Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, by James Gillray

Cartoon, Shakespeare Sacrificed; or the Offering to Avarice, by James Gillray. Showing Alderman John Boydell, an engraver and publisher, in the role of Prospero burning his books

Macroramphosus scolopax, or Longspine Snipefish, also known as Bellowfish, Bellows-Fish, Common Bellowsfish, Spine Trumpet Fish, and (simply) Trumpetfish. Date: 1864

Cornemuse, Calabrian bagpipes, musette and bellows.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique, Adam and Charles Black

Pneumatics- bellows, plans and elevations, 18th century.. Pneumatics- bellows, plans and elevations, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an illustration by J

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