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

The gnarled trunk of an old oak tree (Quercus robur L.) in Rycot Park, Oxfordshire. Soft-ground etching by W. Delamotte, 1805, after himself.

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

The gnarled trunk of an old oak tree (Quercus robur L.) in Rycot Park, Oxfordshire. Soft-ground etching by W. Delamotte, 1805, after himself.