Six scenes of cultivation and irrigation
1830
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1830
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Six scenes of cultivation and irrigation is a 1830 paint by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows six small scenes of farm work. People tend crops, move hay, and herd cows. One panel has a wobbly tower with a person on top, another shows oxen pulling a plow, and a third depicts a well with a bucket. The colors are soft, with earthy browns, greens, and blues. The scenes focus on daily life in farming, not grand landscapes. The artist kept details simple but showed how people relied on animals and tools. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
The artwork consists of six sequential scenes depicting agricultural labor. In the first, seven women transplant rice while a man holds bundles of seedlings. The second shows three men winnowing grain, and the third depicts two men threshing with eight bullocks. The fourth scene features two men ploughing—one using bullocks, the other buffalo. The fifth shows three men drawing water from a tank, while the sixth illustrates a man with a pair of bullocks irrigating a field. Part of a thirty-folio volume illustrating castes, occupations, cultivation methods, and processions, it was acquired from…
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