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Rural conditions

Images

  • 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.
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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.

    Goyen, Jan van, 1596-1656. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 3043777i
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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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    A church and an old house approached through a stone arch near a country road. Etching by C.W. Kolbe the elder.

    Kolbe, Carl Wilhelm, 1759-1835. | Date: 1780-1835 | Reference: 2476785i
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    A man visits a country cottage and pays a young woman; local children protect a pet lamb. Lithograph, 18--.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 3087534i
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