Farming Collection

Design with milkmaid, animals and birds. Watercolour on detail paper. Silver Studio. 1950

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, farming
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing people farming -- Within a year, very few were still working on the land. 1940-1945

Nursery Rhymes -- F, I, Z
Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations for three letters of the alphabet

Nursery Rhymes -- man watching pigs in a sty
Nursery Rhymes -- a man watching pigs in a sty. In the first illustration the pigs are plump and happy, but in the second they are thin and crying. early 20th century

Flock of sheep, Burrawang Station, Australia
Flock of sheep, Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia. circa 1890s

Farmer and pack ox, Japan

Ploughing with oxen, Crete, Greece
A man ploughing with oxen on the island of Crete, Greece. Date: 1965

Man and boy with ox cart, France
A man and a boy with an ox-drawn cart loaded with hay in a village in France. Date: 1927

Man herding sheep along a road near Delphi, Greece
A man herding sheep along a road near Delphi, Greece. Date: 1965

Man feeding poultry, watched by a boy
A man feeding poultry in a large back garden, watched by a little boy. Date: 1920s

Man and woman with cattle, Scotland
A man and a woman with cattle in a remote rural area of Scotland. Date: 1930s

Geese at Bolingey, near Perranporth, Cornwall
Geese in the village of Bolingey, near Perranporth, Cornwall. A man stands at the side of a cart in the background. Date: 1922

Scene at a cattle auction in Exeter, Devon, with a large crowd of potential buyers. Date: 1961

Cutting the Corn
A young boy stands in a field watching a horse-drawn harvesting machine cutting the corn. Date: circa 1908

Five studies of a cockerel

Country lane with farm buildings
A country lane with farm buildings

Poster advertising Norway, showing a pretty milkmaid with a yoke and two buckets. 20th century

Sheep shearer at work, Burrawang Station, Australia
Sheep shearer at work, Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia. circa 1890s

Crofters grinding corn, Isle of Skye, Scotland. late 19th century

Farmer in grass coat, Japan. circa 1890s

Group of farm workers, Japan
Group of farm workers sitting in a field, Japan. circa 1890s

Purebreed Ayrshire and Jersey Cattle, Australia

Grahams Farm, Berry Mountain, Australia
Grahams Farm, Berry Mountain, Shoalhaven District, New South Wales, Australia. circa 1890s

Men with rice bales on cart, Japan. circa 1890s

Winnowing rice, Japan. circa 1890s

Workers threshing grain, Japan. circa 1890s

Crofters and their cottages, Isle of Skye, Scotland. late 19th century

Men with ox carts, Japan. circa 1890s

Skye crofters planting potatoes, Scotland. late 19th century

Shearing sheep, Burrawang, Australia
Shearing sheep, Burrawang, New South Wales, Australia. circa 1890s

Mountain Dairy, Illawarra District, Australia
Mountain Dairy, Illawarra District, New South Wales, Australia. circa 1890s

Octogenarian Skye crofter, Scotland
Octogenarian Skye crofter outside his cottage, Scotland. late 19th century

People harvesting rice, Japan. circa 1890s

Farmer and ox, Japan. circa 1890s

Wool sorting and classing, Burrawang, Australia
Wool sorting and classing in a shearing shed, Burrawang, New South Wales, Australia. circa 1890s

Shearing shed, Burrawang Station, Australia
Shearing shed, Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia. circa 1890s

Farm scene, Japan. circa 1890s

Rice harvest, Japan. circa 1890s

Prize rams, Burrawang Station, Australia
Prize rams, Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia. circa 1890s

Farming scraps Date: circa 1953

Street scene with oxen, Germany
Street scene with oxen near Cochem, Germany. 20th century

Out of Doors -- two girls in a field, looking at the nest of a harvest mouse. 19th century

Borneo Sago poster
Poster depicting a stylised scene in Borneo showing sago being harvested. Sago is a type of starch found in the soft innards of certain palms. Date: 1930

A Sudan Cotton Field
Empire Marketing Board poster showing indigeonous workers picking cotton in a field in the Sudan, while their village can be seen some way in the background. c.1930

Horses pulling the plough
Two heavy horses, pull a farmers plough through a newly cut cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

A motor plough

Farmer and team of working horses plough a field
A team of two heavy horses plough a field, watched by a large crow and a pet springer spaniel. Watercolour painting by Malcom Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Shire horse pulling a hay wagon
A heavy working horse pulls a high hay wagon along a country lane. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

A shepherd resting
An elderly shepherd rests on a small hillock with his collie dog as his sheep graze contentedly. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith circa 1980

The Farm Girl
A young woman tends to the chickens in her farmyard. 1902

Collecting hay bales
Collecting bales of hay in a horse-drawn wooden wagon. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Shire horse team during Ploughing Match
A team of white Shire horses competing in a ploughing match. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Shire Horses pull the plough
A team of two white shire horses pull a light plough across a field of recently cut corn. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Horse-drawn harvester
Two shire horses pull a farmer sitting asride an basic harvesting machine. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Scene at harvest time in France, Western Front, WW1

Helping on the Farm by Muriel Dawson -- a little child on top of a haystack. 1949

Man with pony on country lane, Scotland
A man with a pony carrying bales of hay on a country lane in Scotland

Two oxen outside a barn

Shepherds at North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, with their sheep inside an enclosure

Two young men with horse on a farm
Two young men with a horse outside some farm buildings

Man ploughing with two horses
A man ploughing with two horses in a field

Harvesting scene with laden cart
Harvesting scene showing a cart laden with hay, and two oasthouses in the background

Farming with steam-powered tractor
People farming with the aid of a steam-powered tractor

Beckley Furnace, East Sussex
Farm buildings at Beckley Furnace, East Sussex

Oast houses, Beckley Furnace, East Sussex
Oast houses at Beckley Furnace, East Sussex

Woman sweeping a yard
A woman sweeping a yard outside a barn

Cows grazing near a stream
A herd of cows graze near a stream at the edge of a lush field. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard Date: circa 1940s

Poster depicting Cattle Raising in Australia
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting Cattle Raising in Australia. Date: C.1930

Ploughing a field

Norfolk landscape
A Norfolk landscape. Watercolour paining by Raymond Sheppard circa late 1940s

Poster depicting Dairying in Australia
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting Dairying in Australia. C.1930

Scene at Frome market, Somerset
Scene at Frome livestock market in Somerset, with two old men having a conversation. Date: 1967

Farmers at a cattle auction, North Wales
Farmers keep an eye on proceedings at a cattle auction in Brynkir, North Wales. Date: 1965

Milking a cow at an agricultural school near Rye, Sussex. Date: 1960

Elsie Marleys grown so fine, she won t get up to feed the swine, but lays in bed till after nine, lazy Elsie Marley. 20th century

Threshing wheat during the First World War -- more wheat was needed because of the U-Boat campaign. 1914-1918

Farmyard Dogs
Dogs sleeping in a Devon (England) farmyard, happy to be beside the farmer, hammering in his outbuilding. Date: early 1930s

Rounding up Sheep
Kiwi farmers on horseback rounding up a flock of sheep into a pen on a farm in New Zealand. Date: early 1930s

Ploughmans Lunch
A family ploughmans lunch for this farmer, his son and his grandsons, three generations on a Devon farm, England. Date: early 1930s

Sheep Shearing / Wales
Men and a woman shearing sheep in Snowdonia, Wales. Date: 1962

Label design for Pre Fleuri butter
Label design for Du Pre Fleuri natural butter, marketed in Brussels, showing cows in a green field. circa early 20th century

Label design for Swiss Gruyere Cheese, showing a Swiss farmer ploughing a field with two oxen, with mountains in the background. 20th century

Driving two horses down a snowy lane
A farmer sits side-saddle as he rides/drives two working carthorses down a country lane in the middle of winter. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Country scene with stile and open gate
A typical country scene, with a stile and an open gate. Date: 20th century

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