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Scythes (top), and views of a starching machine (below). Engraving by D. Lizars.
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Costume des anciens peuples. A l'usage des artistes / Par M. Dandré Bardon ; contenant les usages religieux, civils, domestiques & militaires des Grecs, des Romains, des Israélites & des Hébreux, des Egyptiens, des Perses, des Scythes, des Amazones, des Parthes, des Daces, des Sarmates & autres peuples tant orientaux qu'occidentaux, &c.
Dandré-Bardon, Michel François, 1700-1783.Date: 1784-1786- Digital Images
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Neolithic rock engaving depicting scythes, Norway.
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Men working with scythes
Date: c1900Reference: HB13/15/164Part of: Records of Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland- Pictures
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Makers of scythes and sickels hammering a metal blade on an anvil. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34945i- Pictures
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Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865.
Palmer, John, active 1856-1887.Date: 1866Reference: 33936i- Books
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Supplément aux Recherches sur l'origine, l'esprit et les progres des arts de la Grece; sur leur connexion avec les arts et la religion des plus anciens peuples connus; sur les monumens antiques de l'inde, de la perse, du reste de l'asie, de l'europe et de l'egypte. Contenant des Observations nouvelles, sur L'Origine des Idees employees dans les anciens Emblemes religieux; sur les Raisons qui les firent choisir; sur les suites du Deluge universel; sur les Origines des Scythes, des Chinois & des Indiens; sur la Religion primitive de ces peuples; sur celle des anciens Perses, &c. &c.
Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Pictures
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Steel saws, scythes, and other edged implements in steel. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
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The branches of agriculture and husbandry linked by lines showing their progression; (below) workers scythe wheat. Line engraving after Richard Blome (?), 1686.
Blome, Richard, 1635-1705.Date: [1686]Reference: 494114i- Pictures
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Nymphs in a field among cornucopias; workers scythe wheat; representing horticulture and agriculture. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, c. 1810, after H. Corbould.
Corbould, H. (Henry), 1787-1844.Date: [c.a 1810]Reference: 25678i- Pictures
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Three men on a haymaking holiday are lined up by the fence, each of them is holding a scythe, Colour wood engraving after R. Caldecott, 1881.
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886.Date: 1881Reference: 33243i- Pictures
Death as a skeletal figure wielding a scythe: representing fears concerning the Vaccination Act 1898 which removed penalties for not vaccinating against smallpox. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1898.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1898Reference: 14318i- Pictures
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A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Date: [1912?]Reference: 24009i- Pictures
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Death as king holding a scythe. Etching.
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Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
Du Guernier, Louis, 1677-1716.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 25978i- Pictures
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A naked man walks through a rocky landscape with a scythe; representing summer. Etching by J. Coelemans, 1703, after L. Cardi da Cigoli.
Cigoli, Ludovico Cardi da, 1559-1613.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 26485iPart of: Recueil d'estampes d'après les tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France, qui sont à Aix dans le cabinet de M. Boyer d'Aguilles- Pictures
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Two Japanese peasants on a village path, the man carries a scythe and the woman has a baby on her back. Gouache painting.
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A winged skeleton holding a scythe flies above a globe. Etching.
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A devil hacks a field with a scythe. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
Date: 1700-1720Reference: 603074i- Pictures
Father Time holding a scythe: four studies. Etching by R. Earlom, 1787, after G.B. Cipriani.
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.Date: Feb.ry 1st 1787Reference: 2952442i- Pictures
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Astronomy: Saturn with his scythe, riding in his chariot. Engraving by C. Lasinio after Raphael, 1516.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Reference: 46381iPart of: I sette pianeti dipinti da Raffaele d'Urbino nella Sala Borgia del Vaticano.- Pictures
A woman holding a scythe and harvested corn, representing summer. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid, 17--.
Haid, Johann Jacob, 1704-1767.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 672557i- Pictures
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Two Gloucestershire countrymen, one holding a scythe, conversing about foreign affairs. Pencil drawing by S. Jenner.
Jenner, Stephen, 1796-Reference: 560849i- Pictures
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A blindfolded naked man is mowing a field with his scythe; representing the mercilessness of death. Engraving.
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 38995i- Pictures
Astronomy: Saturn with his scythe, above, an angel looking heavenward. Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1695, after Raphael, 1516.
Raphael, 1483-1520Date: [1695]Reference: 46372iPart of: Raphaelis Sanctii Urbinatis planetarium