Geographic area that is located outside towns and cities

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.

Evening: shepherds, labourers on their way home after a day of work, followed by two women and a child who cross a stream. Etching by J. Wagner after G. Zocchi.

A cottage at the junction of two roads: a waggon is driven along one of the roads, while a cowherd drives a cow along the other. Etching by J.C. Klengel, 1773.

A Japanese fisherman on a lake shore pulling in his nets. Watercolour, c.1860.

A Japanese man and child by a village fence. Gouache painting.

A man riding an ox through grass and shrub land. Watercolour.

Rural life: three scenes, including a pedlar, a young farmer's boy with his smock over his arm, and a boy sitting on a gate, talking to a woman. Lithograph, 1848, by M. & N. Hanhart after H. B. Willis.

Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

Two Japanese women on a sandy shore, one crouches down and points across the water. Gouache painting.

A preacher standing inside a barrel and preaching repentance arouses guilt, alarm and confusion in the minds of his audience. Engraving by T. Sanders after Tim Bobbin (John Collier).

A Japanese lady flautist standing with a girl among small pine trees. Watercolour.

A Japanese man heavily laden with firewood crosses a wooden plank over a river, upstream a waterfall. Gouache painting.

1 print : etching ; platemark 22.7 x 31.5 cm

Left, two seated men in conversation; centre, a horse-drawn cart carrying a woman with a child and a poultry basket; right, a man converses with a woman carrying a basket on her arm; representing summer. Etching by F.E. Weirotter after J. van Goyen.

Rural life: nine scenes, including washerwomen, wood-cutters, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

1 print : etching ; platemark 17.7 x 25.2 cm

A church and an old house approached through a stone arch near a country road. Etching by C.W. Kolbe the elder.

1 print : lithograph ; image 42.7 x 54.5 cm

A man visits a country cottage and pays a young woman; local children protect a pet lamb. Lithograph, 18--.

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Left, two seated men in conversation; centre, a horse-drawn cart carrying a woman with a child and a poultry basket; right, a man converses with a woman carrying a basket on her arm; representing summer. Etching by F.E. Weirotter after J. van Goyen.

Rural life: nine scenes, including washerwomen, wood-cutters, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

A church and an old house approached through a stone arch near a country road. Etching by C.W. Kolbe the elder.

A man visits a country cottage and pays a young woman; local children protect a pet lamb. Lithograph, 18--.

Rural conditions

Images from the collections

Images referencing Rural conditions

Works from the collections

Left, two seated men in conversation; centre, a horse-drawn cart carrying a woman with a child and a poultry basket; right, a man converses with a woman carrying a basket on her arm; representing summer. Etching by F.E. Weirotter after J. van Goyen.

Rural life: nine scenes, including washerwomen, wood-cutters, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

A church and an old house approached through a stone arch near a country road. Etching by C.W. Kolbe the elder.

A man visits a country cottage and pays a young woman; local children protect a pet lamb. Lithograph, 18--.

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