akg-images | Hammer, saw and chisel: Carpentry


					If I were a carpenter


« Back		A new occasional series for the akg newsletter: professions and trades through history. We kick off with carpentry. Click on any image to order a high-res scan!



2-H20-Z2-1414 Peter, a Numerberg carpenter, in a 15th-century illumination akg-images		2-G75-J1-1935-13 Young boys in the carpentry shop of a Jewish community centre in Berlin, circa 1935 akg-images / Bildarchiv Pisarek





1-R819-P1-7 An Austrian illumination, circa 1411, of the Israelites enslaved in Egypt akg-images		2-F80-D1-1944-2 Building a movie set, USA 1940s akg-images





2-G76-H1-3-1 Carpenters from the tomb of Rekhmere, necropolis of Shaykh abd al-Qurnah, Thebes akg-images / Erich Lessing		2-H20-T2-1695-1 An imaginary costume for a cabinet maker by Nicolas II de Larmessin, 1695 akg-images





2-H20-T2-1835 Johann Baptist Reiter, The diligent carpenter family, before 1838 akg-images		2-H20-T2-1880-1 A photograph of a cabinet maker, circa 1880 akg-images / Archie Miles





2-H20-T2-1890 A school poster showing a cabinet maker's tools, circa 1890 akg-images		2-H20-T2-1961-1 A cabinet maker in Peru, circa 1961, with wood sculptures of Don Quixote and Charles de Gaulle akg-images / Paul Almasy





2-H20-T2-1920 The Carpenter, a colour print after Ferdinand Raffin, circa 1920 akg-images		2-H20-Z2-1360 Initial A: A carpenter measuring a beam with his arms from a 14th-century English manuscript akg-images / British Library





2-H20-Z2-1884-1 Ferdinand Hodler, The philosophising workman, 1884 akg-images / André Held		2-H20-Z2-1927-1 Alexander Bogmasov, Two Carpenters, 1927 akg-images





2-H20-Z2-1900-3 A French cigarette card, circa 1900 akg-images		2-M127-H1-1935-4 A colour print after F. Gareis, circa 1935, of the Heinzelmännchen at the carpenter's akg-images





2-R30-B1-2005-75 A monk restoring part of a temple in Mandalay, Myanmar R. & S. Michaud / akg-images		2-R41-C9-850-10 A 9th-century Byzantine ivory plaque of the building of the Ark akg-images / Erich Lessing





2-R42-D29-1640-B Georges de La Tour, Saint Joseph as Carpenter, circa 1650 akg-images / Erich Lessing		7-MON-25034 A carpenter at work from the choir stalls of the New Cathedral, Plasencia, Spain akg-images / Bildarchiv Monheim





2-R41-C9-1200 Noah builds the Ark from a window in Chartres Cathedral, 12th/13th Century akg-images / Erich Lessing		7-I1-00082638 A carpenter in traditional guild dress works on a building site, 1960s akg-images / Interfoto



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2-R41-C9-1423 Building the Ark from the Bedford Hours, circa 1423 akg-images / British Library