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74.—Welsh Agricultural CartOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“There are no remains of those terrible war-chariots of the Britons which Cæsar describes as striking terror into his legions. King, who labours very hard to prove that the people who stood up not onl [...]

Keywords: carts, trees, horses, animals, agriculture, greyscale

Places shown: Wales

Added: 2007-04-16

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Ploughing 51 B.C.Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

“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 fertil [...]

Keywords: people, cartoons, humour, agriculture, animals, horses, rocks, unicorns, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-28

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227.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of January.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The central portion of the engraving (Fig. 227) represents the ploughman at his labour. Four oxen are employed in the team, and they are guided by a man in front, who bears a long staff. The sower fol [...]

Keywords: january, months, fields, horses, agriculture, people, farmers, mythology, cartouches, saxon england, calendars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-12-06

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237.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of April.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

April The illumination of the Saxon Calendar for this month represents three persons elevated on a sort of throne, each with drinking-cups in their hands, and surrounded with attendants upon their fes [...]

Keywords: april, months, courts, thrones, agriculture, people, bare feet, cartouches, borders, saxon england, calendars, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2011-01-04

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238.—Ploughing, Sowing, Mowing, Gleaning, Measuring Corn, and Harvest-Supper.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The sower follows immediately behind the ploughman. Fig. 238, which is a literal copy from another manuscript, presents, at once, the operations of ploughing, sowing, mowing, measuring corn into sacks [...]

Keywords: agriculture, people, bare feet, thanksgiving, ploughs, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2011-01-05

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Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his handsThe Leisure Hour (1904)

The farmer stands in a muddy field with one hand on his hip, behind a pair of horses hitched to a single-furrow plough [US: plow]. He wears a hat, a tied neckerchief and tall boots. Specially drawn fo [...]

Keywords: people, ploughs, farming, agriculture, rural, fields, horses, animals, farm machinery, ovals, cartici, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2011-03-16

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Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The two-wheeled plough here is pulled by a pair of oxen and has one man behind. Harleian MS. 4374 is Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, by Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesd [...]

Keywords: ploughs, farming, agriculture, farming, farm machinery, people, poverty, work, rural, oxen, spring, wheels, greyscale

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Added: 2013-04-26

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Title page, Agriculture Or HusbandryThe Gentleman’s Recreation (1686)

This page has a tree of categories of items found in this part of the book, along with, outside the large oveal containing taht caegory tree, a eoman with a large sieve or net, and a man wearing only [...]

Keywords: borders, page images, trees, diagrams, graphic design, husbandry, agriculture, education, tools, farming, gardening, greyscale

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Added: 2020-12-12

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