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Agricultural laborers

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

    | Date: 1874 | Reference: 25803i
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    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.

    Le Bel, E. | Reference: 28170i
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    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.

    Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812. | Date: Feby. 1 1803 | Reference: 30059i
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    World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

    Rawlings, Leo, -1990. | Date: 1944 | Reference: 24141i
    • Ephemera

    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.

    R.S. Hudson Limited. | Date: [1880?]
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