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The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

The Harvest, Pontoise (La Récolte, Pontoise)

Camille Pissarro · 1881

A Washerwoman at Eragny

Camille Pissarro · 1893

The Mower

Georges Seurat · 1881–82

Woman with a Rake

Jean-François Millet · probably 1856–57

The Weeders

Jules Breton · 1868

Young Woman Peeling Apples

Nicolaes Maes · ca. 1655

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal, at Watertown, Massachusetts (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 238, cover)

Winslow Homer · Harper's Weekly · Harper & Brothers · Anonymous, American, 19th century · July 20, 1861

Women Carrying Faggots

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1858

女織蚕手業草　十 · The Making of Silk Floss

Kitagawa Utamaro · ca. 1790

Cider

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1864

Gathering Wood

Anton Mauve

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Book Printing, plate 4

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · Jan Collaert I · Philips Galle · ca. 1600

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Copper Engraving, plate 19

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · Jan Collaert I · Philips Galle · ca. 1600

The Alchemist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Philips Galle · Hieronymus Cock · after 1558

Loading Hay

Mihály Munkácsy · c. 1886-87

Spring (Ver) from The Seasons

Pieter van der Heyden · Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Hieronymus Cock · 1570

Summer (Aestas) from the series The Seasons

Pieter van der Heyden · Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Hieronymus Cock · 1570

A Woman Doing Housework, Plate 5 from "Five Feminine Occupations"

Geertruydt Roghman · ca. 1648–50

Two Women Sewing, Plate 1 from "Five Feminine Occupations"

Geertruydt Roghman · Covens et Mortier · ca. 1640–57

A Young Woman Ruffling, Plate 2 from "Five Feminine Occupations"

Geertruydt Roghman · ca. 1640–57

A Woman Spinning, Plate 4 from "Five Feminine Occupations"

Geertruydt Roghman · ca. 1640–57

Vignette with two sheep, Vignette with two cows in a pool, and Vignette of a wood-gatherer, in: The New York Drawing Book, Containing a Series of Original Designs and Sketches of American Scenery, No. 2

Francis & Seymour Palmer · Frances Flora Bond Palmer · W. H. Graham · 1847