Title

'The Cutler', 1823. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'The Cutler', 1823. Knife blades are shaped at a forge in the background and sharpened on a grindstone turned by a wheel operated by the boy on the right. Handles would be attached and finished knives would be presented in a fitted wooden box like the one on the table at left. From The Book of English Trades. (London, 1823).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1823

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_198

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

29,9Mb (2,8Mb) / 8,9in x 13,1in / 2670 x 3919 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people working work job industry manufacturing worker country trade box occupation British tool English color colour knives location Victorian century Britain profession grinding concept craftsman cutlery knife grindstone 19th century cutler machine tool nineteenth century workers Oxford Science Archive cutlery-making grinding wheel knife grinder woodcut Unknown woodcut