Hoeing the Ground
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Hoeing the Ground is a 1800 paint by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows men hoeing the ground in a field. It's one of a set of 12 paintings about the tea industry in China. These paintings were made for Europeans who were curious about how tea was grown and processed. The scene is simple, but it gives us a glimpse into China's tea industry, which supplied tea to the entire world before 1750, and to learn more, you can look into the technique of sfumato.
A rectangular watercolour painting in blues and greens depicts three figures in the foreground hoeing the ground, with mountains visible in the background. Part of a set of twelve works illustrating the Chinese tea industry, it reflects China's monopoly on global tea supply before the mid-18th century. The series was created to inform European audiences about tea cultivation and processing methods. Acquired in 1894, the work was given by Mrs. L. MacKenzie as part of the Asia Department's holdings.
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