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Outdoor life

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  • A country pedlar selling medicines from a basket. Etching by T. Kitchin after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A country scene with many activities depicted: these include, from left to right, picking cherries, bathing, hay-making, hunting, and eating and drinking. Engraving by M. Merian after S. Vrancx.
  • A travelling drug seller. Etching by D. Deuchar after J. van der Vliet.
  • A group of female travellers washing and taking care of a new born baby while the mother recovers in a tent. Coloured aquatint by C. Rugendas after G. Rugendas I, 1702.
  • Drinkers revelling outside a country tavern as a young man is led away by his mother and a drunkard is removed. Etching by J. Wachsmuth, mid 18th century, after D. Teniers.
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    A travelling drug seller. Etching by J. van der Vliet.

    Vliet, Jan Joris van der, approximately 1610- | Reference: 15941i
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    Rural life: nine scenes, including washerwomen, wood-cutters, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

    Hicks, George Elgar, 1824-1914. | Reference: 485467i
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    Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

    Hicks, George Elgar, 1824-1914. | Date: 1850 | Reference: 485415i
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    Four men and a woman smoking and drinking in an arbour and listening to a travelling hurdy-gurdy player. Etching by R. Daudet, 1787, after C. Dusart.

    Dusart, Cornelis, 1660-1704. | Date: [1787] | Reference: 3006309i
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    A Japanese man heavily laden with firewood crosses a wooden plank over a river, upstream a waterfall. Gouache painting.

    | Reference: 23654i
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