Farm workers under a tree are making a basket, a plough and other agricultural implements. Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar after F. Cleyn.

  • Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658.
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[1654]
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30970i
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Farm workers under a tree are making a basket, a plough and other agricultural implements. Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar after F. Cleyn. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Virgil, Georgics I.160-161 "Dicendum et quae sint duris agrestibus arma, / Queis sine nec potuere seri nec surgere messses." (We must describe the weapons developed for the use of hard countrymen, without which the crops could not be sown, nor grow). In the background a man is ploughing

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[London] : [Thomas Warren for John Ogilby], [1654]

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1 print : engraving

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F. Cleyn inv. W. Hollar fecit.

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Wellcome Collection 30970i

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Dedicated to Elizabeth Dormer, Countess of Carnarvon (1633-1678), wife of the 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, who had an interest in horticulture and botanical illustration

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