| Reference number | RAH/5/6/1/7 |
| Title | Workers in Wood and Brick |
| Description | This panel features the Israelites at work in Egypt, under their hard taskmasters, tempering clay, moulding bricks and drying them in the sun. To the right of the brick-makers, a group pulls a huge sphinx into position outside the doors of a temple, guarded by two obelisks. To their right, wood-workers fell trees and raise into place the wooden columns of an ancient temple. |
| Date | c1869-1870 |
| Physical Description | Pen and ink drawing on white paper with red watercolour wash background. |
| Format | Drawing |
| Extent | 1 drawing |
| Level | Item |
| Creator Name | William Frederick Yeames RA
William Frederick Yeames RA (18 December 1835 - 3 May 1918) was a British painter best known for his oil-on-canvas problem picture 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?', which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. Yeames was a loose member of the St. John's Wood Clique artist's group and from 1859 exhibited at the Royal Academy and was made an Associate (ARA) in 1866. In 2000, a blue plaque commemorating Yeames was installed at his former home, 8 Campbell Road, Hanwell, London, where he lived from 1894 until 1912. |