Title

July - threshing, 15th century, (1939).

Caption

July - 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. Detail of a page from the "Heures de Charles d'Angoulême", a book of hours commissioned by Charles of Orléans (1459-1496), with miniatures mostly painted by Robinet Testard, and now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. Published in "Verve - No. 8, Vol. II". [Verve, France, 1939]

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F19_454

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

29,3Mb (1,9Mb) / 16,6in x 6,9in / 4983 x 2056 (300dpi)

Keywords

manuscript agriculture female women woman people male interior job man men farming arts country French France grain wheat book guy occupation tools tool color medieval poor poverty location century profession inside thirties literature threshing labourer labourers lady concept peasant peasants calendar manuscript Colour Indoors verve 1930s Middle Ages farm hand farm worker 20th century 15th century The Print Collector agricultural worker book of hours farm labourer fifteenth century flail illuminated manuscript agricultural implement manuscript C Charles Folio Robinet Testard Testard Robinet Heures de Charles d'Angoulême Testart Robinet Testard Master of Charles of Angoulême Robinet Testart Master of Charles of Angoulême Master of Charles of Angouleme Testard Master of Charles of Angouleme Charles D'Angouleme D'Angouleme Count of Angoulême Angoulême Charles D'Angoulême D'Angoulême Charles d'Orléans Angouleme Charles d'Orleans comte d'Angoulême