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.
- Date:
- [1654]
- Reference:
- 30970i
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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
Publication/Creation
[London] : [Thomas Warren for John Ogilby], [1654]
Physical description
1 print : engraving
Lettering
F. Cleyn inv. W. Hollar fecit.
Creator/production credits
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
Reference
Wellcome Collection 30970i
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