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[Farmers harvesting crops] – Vintage Wall Art

[Farmers harvesting crops] — historic print
[Farmers harvesting crops]. Historic print from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Farmers harvesting crops], a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few images from the 1480s show the work of bringing in a crop as plainly as this woodcut, which its record dates to 1486. Woodcuts of this kind appeared in the early decades of European printing, when the press was still new, and agricultural scenes often illustrated calendars and almanacs in which each month was tied to a task on the land. A good harvest decided whether a household would eat well through winter, so the subject carried real weight. Notice how the figures sit within the field and how the tools are reduced to simple, bold lines, which reflects the limits and craft of cutting a design into a block of wood.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Notes[1486]
SubjectsHarvesting--1480-1490. Farming--1480-1490.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186708

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