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A young farmer's boy is sowing seed in the field. Engraving.

As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.

A girl wearing clogs turns the hay for cows in their shed. Etching by Jules Laurens.

Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

Saint Isidro Labrador and Saint Maria de La Cabeza. Engraving by H.V. Ugarte, 1768.

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 scenes of farm buildings with workers packing hops. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

Farm workers celebrate the bringing in of the harvest, and a woman offers drinks to the landlord's family or to city visitors; representing Autumn. Wood engraving by T.H. Wilson.

A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.

A doctor tells a farm labourer that he has never touched his wife. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

Hudson's Dry Soap gained grand gold medal, Paris National Academy, 1877 ... : Hudson's Dry Soap gained highest medal, Paris exhibition, for washing preparations 1878.

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Four scenes of hops being packed and workers being paid. Wood-engraving, c. 1874.

As a mouse runs up a young woman's leg, young man lifts her skirt and the cat catches it. Engraving by V. Pillement and C. Niquet after E. Le Bel.

A farm worker has fallen among the corn owing to starvation, and has dropped his scythe and barrel; another worker is also about to faint. Engraving by Anthony Cardon after P.J. de Loutherbourg after himself.

World War Two: two disabled men, both with missing limbs, working the land. Watercolour by L. Rawlings, c. 1944.

Hudson's Dry Soap gained grand gold medal, Paris National Academy, 1877 ... : Hudson's Dry Soap gained highest medal, Paris exhibition, for washing preparations 1878.