Countryside around Dixton Manor, Gloucestershire (Harvesters) (British (English) School, 1715, Cheltenham Art Gallery Museum)

The Hay Wain by John Constable (1821)

Before the Industrial Revolution

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philip James de Loutherbourg, painted 1801. This shows Madeley Wood (or Bedlam) Furnaces, which belonged to the Coalbrookdale Company from 1776 to 1796.

Industry (Girl at Window, Sewing), by Haynes King, 1877-78, Beverley Art Gallery

Weaver at a Loom (Park, 1887, Somerset County Museums Service)

From the domestic system to the factory

Ebley Cloth Mills, Stroud, Gloucestershire(attributed to Alfred Newland Smith, c.1850, The Stroud District (Cowle) Museum Trust Collection)

A Weaving Shop (Francis Henry Newbery, 1924-1927, Bridport Town Council)

The Last of the Coaches (c. 1840)

The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W. Turner (1838)

Steam Power

Industrial Landscape (Charles Ernest Cundall, 1932, Kirklees Museums and Galleries)

Black Country, Night, With Foundry by Edwin Butler Bayliss (1874-1950)

Changing landscapes

Industrial Landscape, Ashton-under-Lyne by Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1952

Asleep under the Stars. Engraving by Gustave Doré from “London, A Pilgrimage”, 1872.

Over London by Gustave Doré, 1872

A two-tier society