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  • Peasants interrupting their work for the Angelus. Lithograph after J.F. Millet.
  • Peasants doing farmwork, thatching their huts and preparing food; representing the Silver Age. Etching by A. Tempesta.
  • Peasants avenging themselves by attacking soldiers from woods next to a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Peasants sitting, smoking, outside an inn as the hostess pours a glass of ale. Engraving by J. Suyderhoff after A. van Ostade.
  • A Russian peasant ploughing his field with two horses and other peasants ploughing in the background. Colour lithograph.
  • Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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-.
  • Two Egyptian peasants, the man smokes a pipe and the woman has a basket on her head. Coloured lithograph by A. Mouilleron, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.
  • Two peasants hold a red robe; cherubs blow wind and Mercury rests on water below; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • Hudibras and his squire Ralpho depart on a pair of horses with two rustic peasants watching; one carries a rake and accidentally disturbs a table spilling the contents of two baskets. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Prince Genji in modern dress with lady attendants visiting Ashikaya (north Kantō Plain) in the fifth lunar month; peasants in the broad, panoramic landscape setting are busy with the spring planting. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1860.
  • Figures and vignettes: above, a swineherd tending pigs and a herd of cows, below, peasants hauling a carved stone on a pushcart and sportsmen and hussars riding horses. Coloured chalk lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. J. Adam, 1853.
  • Above left, a woman with a baby on her back, preparing to smoke a pipe (?); above right, men and women walking in line; below, an ox leading peasants to the Kawaguchi temple. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, with top left design by Kunichika and design below by a pupil of Kyōsai, ca. 1870.
  • Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia.
  • Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia.
  • Peasant Spa of Krapinske Toplice, Yugoslavia.
  • Terracotta representation of a kneeling peasant, Africa.