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  • A peasant is carrying the nest of a nightingale, which is is sitting on a bush and is about to be swooped by a hawk; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • Dirk Klaasz. de Bakker ("the sleeping peasant of Stolwijk") asleep, attended by physicians unable to explain his disorder, surrounded by vignettes depicting Netherlandish cities and allegorical scenes. Engraving after B. van Kempen, and letterpress, 1706.
  • Dirk Klaasz. de Bakker ("the sleeping peasant of Stolwijk") asleep, attended by physicians unable to explain his disorder, surrounded by vignettes depicting Netherlandish cities and allegorical scenes. Engraving after B. van Kempen, and letterpress, 1706.
  • A pregnant woman receives an abortifacient draught from a peasant "wise woman"; she falls ill but the physician cannot save her life; her funeral is attended by her family and neighbours. Colour lithograph by S. I︠a︡guzhinskiĭ, 1925.
  • A pregnant woman receives an abortifacient draught from a peasant "wise woman"; she falls ill but the physician cannot save her life; her funeral is attended by her family and neighbours. Colour lithograph by S. I︠a︡guzhinskiĭ, 1925.
  • A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
  • A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
  • A fox is facing a wolf outside its lair surrounded by its prey while in the background a fox is chased by two dogs towards a peasant with a cudgel. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
  • A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
  • Convent of St Bernard, Switzerland: a distressed woman in Swiss peasant costume is standing in the snow outside a monastery and pleads to two monks pointing in the distance, the monks are sending out their St. Bernard dog for rescue. Stipple engraving by F. Stone after W. Holl.
  • Peasants interrupting their work for the Angelus. Lithograph after J.F. Millet.
  • Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.
  • Peasants doing farmwork, thatching their huts and preparing food; representing the Silver Age. Etching by A. Tempesta.
  • Agriculture: peasants, ploughs and carts of Sardinia. Coloured engraving by A.J. Lallemand after Gonin after Cominotti.
  • Saint Herbot. Here he is represented with a cow, because peasants put their cattle under his protection.
  • Peasants avenging themselves by attacking soldiers from woods next to a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Part of the procession of burghermasters gathered to receive Henrietta Maria of England, watched by peasants and cattle. Etching.
  • Agriculture: peasants gathering manna from trees in Sicily and packing it in boxes marked "Herring Brothers London". Lithograph, c.1850.
  • Lourdes and Gave-de-Pau, Hautes Pyrénées, France: peasants fishing with the castle in the background. Lithograph, 1821, after M. Colston.
  • Peasants sitting, smoking, outside an inn as the hostess pours a glass of ale. Engraving by J. Suyderhoff after A. van Ostade.
  • Ceres (Demeter) on a chariot drawn by lions receives offerings from peasants; representing harvest. Etching by G. Zocchi after P. da Cortona.
  • Ceres (Demeter) on a chariot drawn by lions receives offerings from peasants; representing harvest. Etching by G. Zocchi after P. da Cortona.
  • Two Japanese peasants on a village path, the man carries a scythe and the woman has a baby on her back. Gouache painting.
  • Two peasants sit at a table as a third man vomits on the floor. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade (?).
  • Two peasants sit at a table as a third man vomits on the floor. Etching by D. Deuchar, c. 1784, after A. van Ostade (?).
  • Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.
  • Two peasants in a dingy ale-house; one sleeps on a bench and the other urinates in a bucket. Engraving by J. Groensveld after A. Brouwer.
  • Vaccination: pockmarked and blinded peasants in Russia who have suffered smallpox are contrasted with children and adult citizens who are vaccinated against it. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Vaccination: pockmarked and blinded peasants in Russia who have suffered smallpox are contrasted with children and adult citizens who are vaccinated against it. Colour lithograph, 192-.