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Concept

Plowing

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  • A man ploughing with oxen; in the background, women tending the paddy fields. Gouache drawing, 18--.
  • A ploughman guides his plough across the field helped by a boy. Engraving by Hemsley after W.(?) Craig.
  • A shepherd boy is resting under a tree with his flock of sheep and his dog. Engraving.
  • Burma: members of the royal family accompanied by courtiers and drummers drive oxen through a rice paddy to inaugurate the annual crop. Gouache painting.
  • Payable to the bearer on demand one hundred birr / National Bank of Ethiopia.
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    A man ploughing with oxen; in the background, women tending the paddy fields. Gouache drawing, 18--.

    | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 728041i
    Part of: Indian practitioners of crafts, trades and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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    A shepherd boy is resting under a tree with his flock of sheep and his dog. Engraving.

    | Reference: 30030i
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    Payable to the bearer on demand one hundred birr / National Bank of Ethiopia.

    YaʼItyoṗyā beḥérāwi bānk. | Date: [2008?]
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    A ploughman guides his plough across the field helped by a boy. Engraving by Hemsley after W.(?) Craig.

    Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829. | Date: June 1 1805 | Reference: 30055i
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    Two grazing cattle with a man and a woman, and men ploughing land. Etching by J. Visscher after N. Berchem.

    Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683. | Date: [1700?] | Reference: 2803342i
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