Peasants Collection (page 3)

Portuguese peasantry. circa 1790

Swiss peasants. 1806

Austrian Man and Hungarian Peasant
An Austrian Man near the River Hanak and a Hungarian Peasant. 1832

Peasant farmer, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Date: circa 1900s

A group of raw Serbian peasant army recruits, badly in need of military training and equipment. Date: 1915

Italian peasant home with a steep thatched roof, near Ostia Date: 1890s

Peasants celebrating Christmas Eve at Tonniens 1854
Old Christian custom on Christmas Eve, in France Germany and Norway, were farmers and peasants perambulating the fields, going round and round the boundary

Chinese peasants 1837
Chinese pursuit of agriculture was esteemed as a very honourable occupation, indeed second only to the pursuit of learning. The bulk of the population of the country was engaged in this pursuit

DUTCH PEASANTS EATING
Two Dutch peasants enjoy a hearty meal. Date: 17th century

DELUDED COMMUNISTS
Deluded Russian peasants at Vladivostok parading with banners of Lenin (left), Marx (centre) and Trotsky (right), when an uprising against Bolshevism seemed imminent. Date: early 1930s

JACK STRAWS CASTLE
This famous public house on the edge of Hampstead Heath, north London, is named after a ringleader in the Peasants Revolt of 1381. Destroyed in World War Two, rebuilt 1960s. Date: 1920s

Peasant Home in Thebes
A peasants home in Thebes, with a camel resting outside. Date: 1912

CARD PLAYERS IN KITCHEN
The Card Players: a game of cards taking place in the country kitchen of a poor rural home Date: circa 1807

PLAYING CARDS IN HOLLAND
Great interest is shown in a two-handed game of cards played in a Dutch tavern Date: 17th century

CHINESE LITERACY 1951
Chinese peasants are taught to read and write as part of Chairman Maos Great Leap Forward Date: 1951

GERMAN PEASANTS 1512
Durer made this etching shortly before the Reformation brought civil strife to Germany, making the peasants lot even harsher than before Date: 1512

CALLOT / PEASANT AMBUSH
General scene : Peasants ambush ravaging soldiers Date: 1633

ATTACKING PEASANTS WAR
At Seeburg, Luther condemns the Peasants who think that his rebellion against the Pope authorises them to rebel against secular authority. Date: 1525

Peasants Revolt
Richard II meets the rebels on the Thames Date: 1381

VERSAILLES / HAMEAU
The picturesque village created for Marie Antoinette so that she and the ladies of the court could play at being peasants Date: 1839

BERRY / AUGUST
AUGUST While peasants bring in the harvest and bathe in the river near the chateau dEtampes, a noble party ride out with their falcons Date: 1409 - 1487

SATYR & PEASANTS SATYR & PEASANTS
A satyr dines with a peasant family

DANCING FOR RAIN, SERBIA
RAINMAKING, SERBIA In times of drought, young Dodoles go from village to village in costumes garnished with foliage, dancing while the peasants water the ground Date: 1912

Edirne - formerly Andrinople, Turkey
Edirne - formerly Andrinople - close to the border with Greece and Bulgaria. Site of 16 major battles or sieges from Ancient Greek times up until the 1920s

Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898). Rebels appeal for a p
Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898). Three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain. The final three months of the complict escalated to become the Spanish-American War

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late 14th century. Farmers harvesting pi
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing

Farmers plowing and sowing. Late 15th century. Italy
Farmers plowing and sowing. Miniature of Grimani Breviary. Late 15th century. Saint Marks Library. Venice. Italy

German Peasants C. 1515
German peasants of the early 16th century. Date: circa 1515

Two soldiers with gas canisters, eastern front, Russia, WW1
Two Moujik (peasant) soldiers with a pile of gas canisters on the eastern front near Dvinsk, Russia, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Wladyslaw Reymont - 2
WLADYSLAW STANISLAW REYMONT Polish writer, his best-known work The peasants : he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1924. Date: 1867 - 1925

Peasants dancing round linden tree (main image). Illustration from Hieronymus Bock, Kreuterbuch. Date: 1560

Monument, North Korean Communist Party, Pyongyang
View of the monument to the founding of the North Korean Workers Party, in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. Commissioned by Kim Il Sung (1912-1994)

Republic of Kosovo - Traditional costume and dancing in the countryside

Two Turkish peasants playing Backgammon at an outdoor coffee house

Interior of a Hungarian Peasant house
Superb photographic postcard depicting the interior of a Hungarian Peasant house, showing the piles of clean linen and bedding, folding benches, religious pictures adorning the whitewashed walls

Bog village, County Roscommon, Ireland
Cultivation in a bog village in County Roscommon. Peasants farm the land while a dog looks on. Village dwellings border the fields and other women can be seen in the background working on the land

Ancient Roman costume (men)
Ancient Roman costume for men -- peasants, travellers, nobles, a priest and assistants

Wolf attack in Camporeggiano, Umbria, Italy
Peasants of Camporeggiano in Umbria, Italy, are attacked by a huge wolf -- a mother snatches her child from its jaws !

Russia - Rural Peasant Couple and their well-ventilated home Date: 1907

Austrian cavalry entering village in Russian Poland 1915
Peasants of an invaded countryside, stand meekly outside their houses, hats in hand, hardly daring to look up at the new terror. 1915

Peasant girl with red roses on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

South China - Village Well - Peasants at well, tree on left, steps in background. Part of Box 24 Boswell Collection Southern China and Its people. Date: circa 1900

Russian peasants making hay, Russia, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Beach peasants at Macuto, Venezuela, Central America. circa 1910

Two Isle of Wight Farmers assess a tricky situation
Why the Natives are called Isle of Wight Calves. " Well, what shall us do Bill? Is pose there baint nothin else but to Cut his ed off." Date: 1907

GOYEN, Jan Van (1596-1656). Dutchman painter. Outskirts of a village with travelers, 1630. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Peasant family with a chariot. Engraving by Huyot, 1880. Colored

Hemp harvest. Banks of the Rhine. Peasants working the hemp plant. Engraving. L Illustration Journal Universel (1860). 19th century. Colored

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