18th Century Material Culture

Skating

17th
Century

A Dutch Winter
by Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne 1614
(Staatliche Museen, Berlin)

La Hollandoise sur les patins

by Jacob Gole after Cornelis Dusart (Dutch) c. 1675 - 1724
(The British Museum)

Dutch Skating Scene

by Jan van Goyen c. 1611 - 1655
(The British Museum)

Dutch Peasants
by Adriaen van de Venne c. 1620 - 1626
(The British Museum)

Four Dutch Skaters

by Adriaen van de Venne c. 1620 - 1626
(The British Museum)

Tumbling Dutch Skaters

by Adriaen van de Venne c. 1620 - 1626
(The British Museum)

A Dutch Peasant wearing Ice Creepers Pulling a Woman on a Sled

by Adriaen van de Venne c. 1620 - 1626
(The British Museum)

Dutch River Landscape with Figures Skating

by Jan van Goyen 1651
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Dutch Skating Scene

by Philips Wouwerman c. 1634 - 1668
(The British Museum)

Dutch Beggars & Peasants

by Pieter Jansz c. 1634 - 1640
(The British Museum)

HOE PASSEN WY BYEEN

byAdriaen Matham after Adrieaen van de Venne (Dutch) c. 1644 - 1666
(The British Museum)

The Months / December

by Cornelius Dusart, published by Jacob Gole (Dutch) c. 1675 - 1704
(The British Museum)

Dutch Panel
17th Century
(The British Museum)

Dutch Figures A La Mode

by Romeyn de Hooghe, published by Nicolaes Visscher II c. 1682 - 1702
(The British Museum)

An Exact and Lively Mapp or Representation of Booths and all the varieties of Showes and Humours upon the Ice on
the River of Thames by London ... Anno Dm. MDCLXXXIII.
by William Warter 1684
(The British Museum)

Figures A la Mode
by Romeyn de Hooghe. Published by Nicolaes Visscher c. 1682 - 1702
(Private Collection)

Fille de petit bourgeois d'Amsterdam...

byBernard Picart (Dutch) c. 1695 - 1730
(The British Museum)

JANUARIUS
after Georg Sigismund Rsch c. 1700
(Private Collection)

18th
Century

Fastening the Skate

by Nicolas Lancret (Dutch) c. 1720
(Private Collection)

Porcelain Caddy
by the Meissen Factory after Antoine Watteau c. 1740
(The British Museum)

FROST FAIR
by Edward Ryland 1740
(The British Museum)

THE SOUTH WEST PROSPECT OF THE DROPPING WELL AT KNARESBOROUGH,

AS IT APPEARD IN THE GREAT FROST, JANUARY MDCCXXXIX.
by John Haynes 1740
(The British Museum)

(Four Seasons) LHYVER

by Nicolas de Larmessin III after Nicolas Lancret (France) c. 1740 - 1745
(The British Museum)

Dutch Skater Study

by Anonymous
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Humourous Diversion of SLIDING on the ICE

by Francis Hayman c. 1741 - 1743
(Victoria & Albert Museum)

The Humourous Diversion of SLIDING on the ICE

after Francis Hayman c. 1743
(The British Museum)

Winter
by Thomas Johnson, published by Robert Sayer c. 1750s
(The British Museum)

Winter
by Thomas Johnson, published by Robert Sayer c. 1750s
(The British Museum)

Flemish Skaters
by Hendrik Josep Antoinissen c. 1754 - 1794
(The British Museum)

Winter
by John Simon after Nicolas Lancret, published by Thomas Burford 1758
(The British Museum)

Skaters
by John Hamilton Mortimer c. 1760 - 1779
(The British Museum)

XII Vues de la Seine

by Franz Edmund Weirotter c. 1761 - 1762
(The British Museum)

Skating in Hyde Park

by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1734 - 1794)
(The British Museum)

January
by Carington Bowles & Robert Sayer 1767
(The British Museum)

JANUARY.
Mid 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)

The PLEASURES of SKAITING, or A VIEW in WINTER.

by Carington Bowles after John Collet c. 1780
(The British Museum)

A Winter Morning with a Party Skating

by Philip James de Loutherbourg c. 1776
(Brodsworth Hall)

The Skater
by Gilbert Stuart 1782
(National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

The Skater
by Gilbert Stuart 1782
(National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

JANUARY
by Carrington Bowles 1784
(Lewis Walpole Library)

JANUARY
by Carrington Bowles 1784
(Lewis Walpole Library)

WINTER
by Thomas Letton after Philip James de Loutherbourg 1784
(The British Museum)

WINTER
by Thomas Letton after Philip James de Loutherbourg 1784
(The British Museum)

SKAITING SCENE in HYDE PARK

by Harrison & Co. 1785
(The British Museum)

WINTER AMUSEMENT, A View in Hyde Park from the Moated House

by Robert Sayer after Julius Caesar Ibbetson 1787
(The British Museum)


WINTER AMUSEMENT, A View near Hyde Park from the Sluce at the East End
by Eyde, published by Robert Sayer after Julius Caesar Ibbetson 1787
(The British Museum)


WINTER AMUSEMENT, A View near Hyde Park from the Sluce at the East End
by Eyde, published by Robert Sayer after Julius Caesar Ibbetson 1787
(The British Museum)

Ice Skates
Runners

Skate Runners
18th Century
(Old Sturbridge Village)

Ice Skates
Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Private Collection)

Ice Skates
18th - Early 19th Century
(Private Collection)

Figures

by Franzz Anton Bustelli, Ludwigxburg Porcelain Factory (Germany) c. 1765

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

Winter
by William Duesbur & Co., Derby, England c. 1770 - 1784
(Victoria & Albert Museum)

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