Caption

Corn Harvest, Compositions with Mowing Women (former title), print, Men and women with bundles of mown corn in their arms., printmaker: Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934, paper, pencil, engraving, intaglio printmaking technique, engraving and plate tone with additions in pencil, height 325 mm x width 250 mm, cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, eg: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet), binding, harvest, A monochrome drawing of several people working in a field, shown from waist up to feet, wearing hats and simple garments with visible folds and crosshatching, each holding or bundling long sheaves of grain with sweeping curved lines; one person in the foreground looks outward with a tilted head, another bends forward gathering stalks, and others are depicted in various bent and reaching poses; the background shows a low horizon with horizontal stroke lines and sketched fields, and the ground is filled with textured lines indicating vegetation.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A88_082

License type

Rights managed

Available size

52.3Mb (6.6Mb) / 13.9in x 14.6in / 4174 x 4382 (300dpi)

Keywords

Corn Harvest Compositions Mowing Women former title print Men women bundles mown corn arms printmaker Johannes Josephus Aarts 1881 - 1934 paper pencil engraving intaglio printmaking technique plate tone additions height 325 mm x width 250 mm cereal grain corn grass grains grown food eg wheat rice rye oats maize buckwheat millet binding harvest monochrome drawing several people working field shown waist up feet wearing hats simple garments visible folds crosshatching holding bundling long sheaves sweeping curved lines person foreground looks outward tilted head another bends forward gathering stalks depicted various bent reaching poses background low horizon horizontal stroke sketched fields ground filled textured lines indicating vegetation