Forge Gallery

The prayer at Valley Forge

The prayer at Valley Forge. Print showing George Washington, kneeling on one knee, praying in a grove of trees, his hores nearby, with soldiers gathered around a campfire on the right and a man watching from behind a tree with a mill in the distance on the left, at Valley Forge. Date 1866, c1866

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Forge, Prayer, Valley

Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking

Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking and whips. Basket-maker weaving willow into baskets and hampers on the Isle of Ely 34, man plucking quill feathers from geese in the Lincoln Fnes 35 and stage coach postillion with a whip made in Daventry 36. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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Plan and elevation of an iron forge, 18th century

Plan and elevation of an iron forge, with chafery, finery, blowing engine, and balling or pudding furnace. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1811. Date:

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