Cultural object · Europeana
IMAGE- Contributor
- Westall, Richard
- Year
- 1805
- Country
- Europe
- Provider
- Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
- Collection
- 2064107_Museu_UK_Museums
This is an unmounted print of an aquatint engraving entitled ‘Reapers’ and shows a harvest scene. The foreground shows several figures – a young man holding a scythe talking to a woman sitting under a tree with a baby on her lap and a little girl at her knee; another young man holding a sheaf of wheat talking to a young woman who ties the sheaf. In the background, there are several reapers at work in the fields, watched by a man on horseback. The picture was painted by Richard Westall (1765–1836
Rights: 4.0/
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