Person working on an agricultural enterprise

A young farmer's boy is sowing seed in the field. Engraving.

As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.

A girl wearing clogs turns the hay for cows in their shed. Etching by Jules Laurens.

Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

Saint Isidro Labrador and Saint Maria de La Cabeza. Engraving by H.V. Ugarte, 1768.

Two Egyptian peasants, the man smokes a pipe and the woman has a basket on her head. Coloured lithograph by A. Mouilleron, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.

Two scenes of farm buildings with workers packing hops. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

Farm workers celebrate the bringing in of the harvest, and a woman offers drinks to the landlord's family or to city visitors; representing Autumn. Wood engraving by T.H. Wilson.

A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.

A doctor tells a farm labourer that he has never touched his wife. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

Two agricultural workers conversing. Woodcut by J. Amman.

An old farm labourer is valued at 2 guineas but a prize pig is valued at 3 guineas. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1846.

1 print : wood-engraving ; image 15.7 x 14.5 cm

1 print : engraving ; platemark 18 x 11.5 cm

1 painting : watercolour, with pencil ; image 22.4 x 27.1 cm

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

1 sheet : colour illustrations ; 14 x 23 cm

Hudson's Dry Soap gained grand gold medal, Paris National Academy, 1877 ... : Hudson's Dry Soap gained highest medal, Paris exhibition, for washing preparations 1878.

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Agricultural laborers

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Images referencing Agricultural laborers

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Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.

A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

Hudson's Dry Soap gained grand gold medal, Paris National Academy, 1877 ... : Hudson's Dry Soap gained highest medal, Paris exhibition, for washing preparations 1878.

Agricultural laborers

Images from the collections

Images referencing Agricultural laborers

Works from the collections

Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.

A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

Hudson's Dry Soap gained grand gold medal, Paris National Academy, 1877 ... : Hudson's Dry Soap gained highest medal, Paris exhibition, for washing preparations 1878.

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