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Agriculture: villagers (perhaps in Syria or Palestine) threshing corn by trampling it with oxen. Engraving by C. Cousen after R. Beavis.

Farming: a milling machine for corn, driven by a water-wheel, three-quarter view. Engraving by Seal, c.1750.

Farming: a milling machine for corn, three-quarter view. Engraving by B. Cole, early eighteenth century, after R. Blackwell.

Let good things get together : Kellogg's Corn Flakes are delicious with fruits / Kellogg Company of Great Britain.

Cheese-flavoured puffed corn snack

Two partridges feeding on corn with men trapping a dog in the background. Etching.

Indian agriculture and crops. Gouache drawing.

Newspaper illustrations of harvesters and Earl Spencer, President of the Royal Agricultural Society, accompanied by a ballad and article about the RAS Meeting. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1844.

Two sparrows pecking at a seedhead of corn. Watercolour.

Farming: a reaping machine, driven by a horse. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1816.

Wheat (Triticum aestivum): two heads of grain, and a lentil plant. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.

An appeal to the county of Lancaster, on the present scarcity. By Francis Chalmer, Of liverpool, corn merchant & miller, who was deputed to represent the sufferers by importation of foreign corn in 1796 in liverpool and the outports of England and Scotland. Dedicated to Colonel Stanley, representative of the county of lancaster.

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Farming: a reaping machine, driven by a horse. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1816.

Two partridges feeding on corn with men trapping a dog in the background. Etching.

Wheat (Triticum aestivum): two heads of grain, and a lentil plant. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.

Farming: a milling machine for corn, three-quarter view. Engraving by B. Cole, early eighteenth century, after R. Blackwell.