Labours Collection

Hotel chefs relaxing, Central London
Chefs outside a Central London hotel take a break from their labours, in the fresh air. Date: circa 1950s

Hercules Fighting with the Nemean Lion by ZURBARAN, Francisco de (1598-1664). Scene from a series of the labours of Hercules

Herring Fleet Fisher Women, East Coast of Britain, 1913
Photographs showing three views of fisher women who worked for the herring fleet on the East coast of Britain in 1913. At top, three women stand at the pickling trough, gutting and pickling herring

Labour digging up a narrow road for repairs on a burst waterpipe in London. Date: 1901

Daisies, Violets, Ladiesmocks and Cuckoo-buds (Loves Labours Lost). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare, Day and Haghe

LOVES LABOUR LOST
Act IV, Scene II Jaquenetta asks Holofernes to translate a letter for her; Costard, Dull & Sir Natheniel look on Date: 1793

LOVES LABOURS LOST
Act IV, Scene I The Princess & her train Date: Nineteenth century

Vases and Friezes which belonged to Robert Adam
Roman Marble funerary (cinerary) vases and friezes which belonged to Robert Adam - in Sir John Soanes Museum, London, WC2. Date: circa 1920s

Hercules Tearing the Burning Robe by ZURBARAN, Francisco de (1598-1664). Scene from a series of The Labours of Hercules

Shakespeare - Loves Labours Lost - Biron: Where lies thy grief, O tell me, good Dumain? circa 1830

Loves Labours Lost - title page. 1862

Certificate from Veg. Products Committee for Naval Supply
Certificate Christmas 1917. To Mr. Lade of Eastbourne of the Vegetable Products Committee for Naval Supply, from the Officers and Men of the Grand Fleet in grateful recognition of your devoted

Alphonse Fran. Lacroix
ALPHONSE FRANCOIS LACROIX Swiss (but english-speaking) missionary in Bengal, pointing to the scene of his labours on a globe. Date: 1799 - 1859

Hercules strikes Cacus, and view of Rome
Page of text with marginal drawings. At the top in the left margin is a picture of Rome. In front of the city stand two men, one of whom is wearing armour. There are birds flying over their heads

Herakles Versus Hydra
He slays the Hydra of Lerna, one of his Twelve Labours

Angelus in Canada
French-Canadian farmworkers pause in their labours when the angelus sounds Date: late 19th century

The Nemean Lion
One of his seven labours of Herakles was to slay the Lion of Nemea, which is said to have come from the Moon

Loves Labours Lost

J. Ramsay Macdonald
False-coloured photograph of J. Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937), Labours first opposition leader in 1923

The Spider & Silkworm
THE SPIDER & THE SILKWORM A spider boasts she can spin much more quickly than the silkworm; the silkworm replies her labours endure & are valued unlike the spiders web

Herakles and the Hydra
One of his Twelve Labours is to slay the Hydra of Lerna, a denizen of the swamps, each of whose nine heads, if severed, is replaced by two more : but he manages it

HERAKLES
Greek hero, son of Zeus and Alkmene, the worlds strongest man, which he needed to be to perform the Twelve Labours for King Eurystheus, as a penance for crimes he did while mad

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