| Image title: | Ploughing 51 B.C. |
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| Source: | Nye, Bill: “Bill Nye’s History of England” (1900) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | people, cartoons, humour, agriculture, animals, horses, rocks, unicorns, mythical creatures, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
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“Agriculture had a pretty hard start among these people, and where now the glorious fields of splendid pale and billowy oatmeal may be seen interspersed with every kind of domestic and imported fertilizer in cunning little hillocks just bursting forth into fragrance by the roadside, then the vast island was a quaking swamp or covered by impervious forests of gigantic trees, up which with coarse and shameless glee would scamper the nobility.” (p. 17) In this cartoon, a horse drawing a plough (US: plow) has stumbled and fallen as the ploughshare hit a rock, and the barefoot plaoughman, wearing only an aniaml fur, is catapulted upwards. In the distance are the lion and unicorn of England, watching on. |
| Dimensions: | 102 x 50mm (4.0 x 2.0 inches) |
| Filename: | 017-Ploughing-51BC-q75-500x268.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/16/017-Ploughing-51BC-q75-500x268.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/16/pages/017-Ploughing-51BC/ |
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| Cartoonist: | W. M. Goodes |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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