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Grain Shovel, c. 1940. Creator: Mary HansenGrain Shovel, c. 1940
Wooden Grain Shovel, c. 1941. Creator: Pearl DavisWooden Grain Shovel, c. 1941
The Grain Weighers, 1608 / 1611. Creator: Jacques CallotThe Grain Weighers, 1608/1611
The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed), 1860. Creator: Jules BretonThe Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed), 1860
Trompe l Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol, c. 1675. Creator: UnknownTrompe l Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol, c. 1675
Joachim and Anna Giving Food to the Poor and Offerings to the Temple, c. 1400 / 1405Joachim and Anna Giving Food to the Poor and Offerings to the Temple, c. 1400/1405
Plate 22: Venus ordering Psyche to sort a heap of grain, from the Fable of Psyche, 1530-60
Country Scene with a Peasant, Cow and Calf. Creator: Claude MellanCountry Scene with a Peasant, Cow and Calf
Crab and Rice Plant, 19th century. Creator: HokusaiCrab and Rice Plant, 19th century
Plate 12: Pulling a Vessel Loaded with Grain to Shore, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians (Romanorvm et Batavorvm societas), 1611
Illustration to Proverbs 11: 26, 1534. Creator: Daniel HopferIllustration to Proverbs 11: 26, 1534
November from Album of Rustic Subjects, 1859. Creator: Jacques-Adrien LavieilleNovember from Album of Rustic Subjects, 1859
July from Album of Rustic Subjects, 1859. Creator: Jacques-Adrien LavieilleJuly from Album of Rustic Subjects, 1859
[Peasant Woman with Winnowing Basket], late 1870s. Creator: Unknown[Peasant Woman with Winnowing Basket], late 1870s
Studies of the blossoms, fruits and trunk of an English oak (Quercus robur), 1788
Studies of the leaves, blossoms, fruits and trunk of a whitebeam (Sorbus subgenus Aria), 1788
Studies of the trunk, blossoms and fruit of a wild apple tree (Malus sylvestris), 1788
La Halle aux Bles, Exterior View, ca. 1810. CreatorLa Halle aux Bles, Exterior View, ca. 1810
La Halle aux Bles, Interior View, ca. 1810. CreatorLa Halle aux Bles, Interior View, ca. 1810
Trompe l oeil with Palettes and Miniature. Creator: Attributed to Jean Francois de Le MotteTrompe l oeil with Palettes and Miniature
Design with faux marbling, Paris, France, (1928). Creator: UnknownDesign with faux marbling, Paris, France, (1928). 1864...Design for decorative painting (imitation of a marble, spar and malachite wall-facing)...Presumably by Eugene Berthelon, born in Paris
July - threshing, 15th century, (1939). Creator: Robinet TestardJuly - threshing, 15th century, (1939). Peasants using flails to thresh wheat. The separated grain is used to make flour. The stalks are then dried to make hay
Flailing the Grain, c1821, (1965). Creator: Aleksey VenetsianovFlailing the Grain, c1821, (1965). The Threshing Floor or Threshing Barn. Russian peasants threshing (separating grains from their husks) after the harvest
Harvesting. Summer, mid 1820s, (1965). Creator: Aleksey VenetsianovHarvesting. Summer, mid 1820s, (1965). Russian peasants gathering in the wheat. Painting in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Cinderella, c1850. Creator: Albert Henry PayneCinderella, c1850. Scene from the fairy story: Cinderella sits in the kitchen, watching doves eating grain. [AH Payne, Dresden & Leipzig]
Small Girl Feeding Doves, c1888. Artist: Anna Lea MerrittSmall Girl Feeding Doves, c1888. A female child stands holding her skirts, while doves feed on grain that has fallen from a tipped over basket on the floor nearby
Ford Model A of FH Grain competing in the JCC Half-Day Trial, 1930. Artist: Bill BrunellFord A 1929 2033 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. VB6363.Entry No: 58. Driver: Grain, F.H. J.C.C. Half-day Trial. Date: 8.3.30
Ford Model A of FH Grain competing in the MCC Sporting Trial, Litton Slack, Derbyshire, 1930Ford A 1929 2033 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. VB6363. Event Entry No: 57 Driver: Grain, F.H. Award: Bronze. Place: Litton Slack, Peak District National Park. M.C.C. Sporting Trial. Date: 25.10.30
The Miller, from Four and Twenty Toilers, pub. 1900 (colour lithograph). accompanies verse by E.V. Lucas (Edward Verrall Lucas) (1868 – 1938);
A Wandering Grain-merchant, 1905. Artist: Mortimer Luddington MenpesA Wandering Grain-merchant, 1905. From India, by Mortimer Menpes. Text by Flora A. Steel. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1905]
Threshing grain near Jacobs Well, c1900. From Journey in All Lands - Palestine. [Realistic Travels, London, Cape Town, Bombay, Melbourne, Toronto, c1900]
State of Washington grain exhibit, Agriculture Building, Louisiana, USA. Artist: HC WhiteState of Washington grain exhibit, Agriculture Building, Louisiana, USA. Stereoscopic card detail
The Annamese way of reaping and threshing rice, Annam, Vietnam, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire
A nomad maid of the mill preparing couscous, Algeria, 1922. Artist: A BougautA nomad maid of the mill preparing couscous, Algeria, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire
The winnowing of the grain after threshing, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & UnderwoodThe winnowing of the grain after threshing, Egypt, 1905. Here is the next step in the process of harvesting in Egypt, The mixture of broken straw
Threshing in Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & UnderwoodThreshing in Egypt, 1905. The farm where we find this Egyptian peasant threshing his grain is in the fertile Nile valley of lower Egypt. Stereoscopic card. Detail
Newar women pounding grain, Nepal, 1936. Artist: Ewing GallowayNewar women pounding grain, Nepal, 1936. The Newar are an indigenous people of the Kathmandu Valley. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler
Miller, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost AmmanMiller, 16th century (1849). A 19th century version of an original 16th century engraving. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, Ferdinand Sere and A Rivaud, Volume I (Paris, 1849)
Farmers wives at work, Iwakuni, Japan, 1904. Artist: Underwood & UnderwoodFarmers wives at work, Iwakuni, Japan, 1904. Farmers wives prepare barley (prior to processing it into grain) by pulling it through iron combs. Stereoscopic card. Detail
Steel grain car, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 2nd series
Bells reaping machine, 1851. Artist: GH SwanstonBells reaping machine, 1851. Scottish clergyman and inventor Patrick Bells (1799-1869) reaping machine of 1826 was the first successful reaping machine, but was not commercialised
Threshing machine by Andrew Meikle, Scottish inventor and millwright, 1811. Top: original form of the machine powered by horses. Bottom: improved form powered by a water wheel
Egyptian Food from tombs. Grain, bread, beans as Funerary offerings. Ancient Egyptian pharaohs and their relatives spent years preparing a lavish tomb stocked with everything they might need or want
Cuneiform tablet barley rations, 1st Dynasty of Lagash, about 2350-2200 BCCuneiform tablet recording barley rations, 1st Dynasty of Lagash, about 2350-2200 BC, from Tello (ancient Girsu), southern Iraq
Egyptian tomb figure of a woman grinding corn using a saddle quern, c2500 BC. Photograph taken c1910
Harvest Time, c1855. A harvest scene depicting a romanticised view of 18th century English rural life
Reaping with sickles and binding the sheaves, England, c1800
Harvest time, 1762. Men and women reaping with sickles, corn being tied up in sheaves and stood in stooks to dry. From La Nouvelle Maison Rustique, 8th edition. (Paris, 1762)