The Atelier
The Watch-Maker at His Bench
The trade itself, seated and at work.
- Work
- Engraving, Wellcome Collection
- Maker
- Unknown engraver
- Date
- 18th–19th century
- Held by
- Wellcome Collection, London (V0023855)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Master
- 2888×2444px
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
Sizes are capped to what this piece’s real source scan honestly supports — we never enlarge past the engraving.
$29.00
The story
The watchmaker at his bench, a long-case clock standing behind him like a colleague — the portrait of a profession rather than a person. The bench is the true subject: the small vice, the files, the work held close to the window light, because before electricity the trade lived by the sun it was built to replace. Of all the images in this house, this one says most plainly where every watch began: with a person, seated, being patient at a scale most eyes never see.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
The Watch-Maker at His Bench printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by Wellcome Collection, London (V0023855), served under the institution’s stated license (CC BY 4.0) — source linked below.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- The artwork is never cropped and never enlarged past its scan — sizes stop where the engraving stops holding.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Source: Wellcome Collection, London (V0023855) — the scan this reproduction is printed from, and the page documenting its public-domain / open-access status. We are unaffiliated with any watch manufacturer, past or present.
