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Harvesting

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  • Chinese men harvesting. Gouache.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • Agricultural labours: harvesters loading sheaves of corn on to a wagon, and a man and boy shearing sheep. Engraving after E. Bendemann.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by His Excellency Edward Everett, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and prayer : ... Thursday, the thirtieth day of November... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, this second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven ... / Edward Everett, John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the State.
  • The month August and the sign of Virgo, represented by harvest time and the disciples of Christ plucking of ears of corn on the Sabbath. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
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    A harvesting scene representing summer. Etching by N. Perelle, 17th century.

    | Reference: 26447i
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    A man and a woman in a vineyard in autumn; representing the benefits of the fiftieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.

    Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689. | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 26385i
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    Haymakers sitting down in the shade of a hay-rick to eat. Etching by J.J. Veyrassat, ca. 1857.

    Veyrassat, Jules Jacques, 1828-1893. | Date: 1857 | Reference: 485354i
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    A boy kneeling, holding a baby bird found while raking corn, with a woman and a girl, each holding a rake. Lithograph.

    | Reference: 38230i
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    A field being harvested; representing July. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.

    Perelle, Gabriel, 1603-1677. | Reference: 26523i
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