Reaping Collection

The International Exhibition: Crosskill's Bell's reaping-machine, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Crosskill's Bell's reaping-machine, 1862. '...Prize Corn-mowing Machine of the trustees of W

"Hay-makers", by J. Linnell, Sen., from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1864. Creator: W Thomas
"Hay-makers", by J. Linnell, Sen., from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'We need hardly say that the landscape we have engraved is distinguished by

Jewish Pedagogical College and Agricultural School - At field work/Barley is..., Minsk, 1922-1923. Creator: Unknown
Jewish Pedagogical College and Agricultural School - At field work / Barley is being reaped, Minsk, 1922-1923. In the early part of the Stalin era

Harvest Operations - Reaping, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Harvest Operations - Reaping, 1858. One of our Artists, fresh from the cornfields, has forwarded to us the accompanying Illustrations of gathering in the harvest

Hellard's Patent Victoria Side-Delivery Reaping and Mowing Machine, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Hellard's Patent Victoria Side-Delivery Reaping and Mowing Machine, 1860. Cutting the corn [ie wheat] when it is ripe is one of the most important operations of harvest...the improvements [Mr

Faucheurs, Somme, 1890s, (1956). Creator: Eugene Atget
Faucheurs, Somme, 1890s, (1956)

Two women working on the land, 1834-1911. Creator: Jozef Israels
Two women working on the land, 1834-1911

People picking plums, c.1880-c.1910. Creator: Anon
People picking plums, c.1880-c.1910. A woman stands on a ladder against a plum tree and shakes a branch so that the plums fall down on another woman, as two children laugh

Greek Husbandmen, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Greek Husbandmen, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

The International Exhibition: Ransome and Sims agricultural machinery, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Ransome and Sims agricultural machinery - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862

Reapers, 1910. Artist: Leon-Augustin Lhermitte
Reapers, 1910. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Apache Reaper [gathering wheat], c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Apache Reaper [gathering wheat], c1906. Apache woman harvesting wheat with a hand sickle

Reaper, 1853, after drawing made in 1852. Creator: Jacques-Adrien Lavieille
Reaper, 1853, after drawing made in 1852

Les Moissonneurs. Creator: Jean Morin
Les Moissonneurs

Reapers of grain, 1704. Creator: Giovanni Girolamo Frezza
Reapers of grain, 1704

Reaper & Binder Competition, Mount Blowhard, near Ballarat, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Reaper & Binder Competition, Mount Blowhard, near Ballarat, 1901. From " Federated Australia". [The Werner Company, London, 1901]

Reaping Machine, early 19th century. Creator: J Moffat
Reaping Machine, early 19th century. Diagram of a farm implement used for harvesting crops mechanically. Plate CCCCLXXIX from the " Edinburgh Encyclopaedia" edited by David Brewster

Reaping Machine Invented by James Smith of Deanston, 1816, (1904). From Social England, Volume VI, edited by H.D. Traill, D.C.L. and J. S. Mann, M.A

The Reapers Child, 18th century, (1912). Artist: Marino Bovi
The Reapers Child, 18th century, (1912). Child of a reaper sits with a dog while figures Harvest, and gather mature crops from the field. Marino Bovi (1757-1813). From The Connoisseur Vol XXXIV

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

Gathering tares from wheat in the stony fields of Bethel (Baytin), Palestine, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Gathering tares from wheat in the stony fields of Bethel (Baytin), Palestine, 1900. From a series called Travelling in the Holy Land Through the Stereoscope, by Jesse Hurlbut

The Queen and the Reapers at Blair Castle, c1840s, (1900). Queen Victoria talking with agricultural workers harvesting near the village of Blair Atholl in Perth and Kinross, Scotland

The Seasons, c1050, (1843). Artist: Henry Shaw
The Seasons, c1050, (1843). Copy of a manuscript showing agricultural occupations from July to December. July, mowing and making hay; August, reaping; September, hunting; October, hawking; November

Cyrus Hall McCormick, Irish American farmer, inventor, businessman, and marketer, (c1924). McCormick (1809-1884) became famous as the inventor of the mechanical reaper in 1831

Reapers, 19th or early 20th century. Artist: Leon-Augustin Lhermitte
Reapers, 19th or early 20th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Harvest, 1775. A print from La nouvelle maison rustique, ou economie generale de tous les biens de campagne : la maniere de les entretenir et de les multiplier donnee ci-devant au

Harvesting the hay, 1775. A print from La nouvelle maison rustique, ou economie generale de tous les biens de campagne : la maniere de les entretenir et de les multiplier donnee ci-devant au

Cyrus McCormicks reaping machine of 1831 (patented 1834), c1851. This, the first widely adopted reaping machine, was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London where it was awarded a gold medal

Bells improved reaping machine by Crosskill, c1840s. Artist: Joseph Wilson Lowry
Bells improved reaping machine by Crosskill, c1840s. A farmer operates the machine by guiding two horses behind which push the harvester forward

Bells reaping machine, 1851. Artist: GH Swanston
Bells 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

Detail from the Book of the Dead showing the Elysian Fields
Detail from the Book of the Dead showing Ani farming in the Elysian Fields. He is reaping corn with a sickle and threshing corn with oxen

Reaping and socking-up corn to dry, Lake Drie, Canada, 1880. A print from The Graphic, 29th May 1880

Man reaping barley with a sickle, probably of wood set with flint, Ancient Egyptian, c240 BC. From the west wall of the tomb of Urarna, Sheik Safd, Egypt. Photograph taken c1910

Nesitanebtashru ploughing and reaping, c1025 BC. From The Greenfield Papyrus (Book of the Dead of Princess Nesitanebtashru)

Reaper beginning to cut crop of wheat with a sickle, 1867. From an English childrens book

Patrick Bell (1799-1869), Scottish clergyman and inventor, 1868. In c1827 Bell invented a mechanical reaper which Cyrus McCormick later perfected

Crop rotation: reaping with a Hainault Scythe, 1855. Crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops alternately on the same patch of ground over a cycle of several years in order to protect

Crop rotation: harvesting corn, 1855. Reaping with a scythe, binding and stooking. Crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops alternately on the same patch of ground over a cycle of

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)

Reconstruction of reaping machine used in Gaul in Ancient Roman times, as described by Pliny, c1890
Reconstruction of reaping machine used in Gaul in Ancient Roman times, as described by Pliny, Engraving, c1890

Reconstruction of Roman reaping cart, as described by Pliny, Engraving, 1860
Reconstruction of Roman reaping cart, as described by Pliny. Engraving, 1860. Aristotle believed that motion was a continuous pushing action

Cyrus McCormicks reaper and binder, 1877
Cyrus McCormicks reaper and binder, an improvement on the model patented in 1831 which was a reaper only, 1877

Cyrus McCormicks reaping machine, 1862. Patented in America in 1831and shown at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, London, 1851, it was the first widely adopted mechanical reaper

Corn versus Chaff, 1860. John Bull represents the agricultural worker in the heat of the day working to gather the harvest so that the people may be fed through the coming winter

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