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A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.

Yorkshire: four cloth-dressers (croppers) smoothing a sheet of wool. Coloured aquatint by R.& D. Havell, 1813, after G. Walker.

Mémoire sur l'agriculture.

Examen du sentiment de M. Roland de la Platiere, sur les troupeaux, sur les laines, & sur les manufactures.

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Mémoire sur l'agriculture.

Examen du sentiment de M. Roland de la Platiere, sur les troupeaux, sur les laines, & sur les manufactures.

A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.

Yorkshire: four cloth-dressers (croppers) smoothing a sheet of wool. Coloured aquatint by R.& D. Havell, 1813, after G. Walker.