Scythe Collection

Death personified on a Tarot card
Death personified as a skeleton with a scythe on a Tarot card

Tarot Card 13 - La Mort (Death)

The Farming Year by Pauline Baynes
The Farming Year, painted in the style of a medieval stained glass window by Pauline Baynes, showing the agricultural activities of a farmer of the Middle Ages month by month

Scything the Hay
Four men scythe hay into rows : a woman brings their lunch

Draycott, Cotswold vllage, Oldborough Farm, men and scythes
Draycott, Cotswold village, Oldborough Farm, five men in field with scythes. Date: circa 1920

Harvest workers, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Harvest workers in a field above the town of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Fable / Old Man & Death
THE OLD MAN & DEATH An old man, exhausted gathering sticks, calls for Death to take him; immediately Death appears, and the man regrets what he wished for

Battle of Maciejowice
The Russians and Prussians defeat the leader of the insurrection, Kosciuszko, and his forces at the battle of Maciejowice

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Pregnant nun Sister Jean sitting in her convent cell, her habit open to reveal her breasts. A picture of Saint Martha on the wall. Soeur Jeanne

Kazakh man cutting hay with a scythe
A Kazakh man wearing a chapan (Kazakh quilted dressing gown) and kalpak, working in a field with a scythe, cutting hay. 20th century

Scything Date: early 1900s

Sharpening his scythe, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Whalley Abbey Gatehouse, Lancashire, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Farmer using scythe

Farmer using a scythe Victorian period

Allegoric Capricho, 1852, by Eugenio Lucas Velazquez
Eugenio Lucas Velazquez (1817-1870). Spanish painter. Allegoric Capricho, 1852. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain

Farmer With Scythe
An oil painting of a farmer outside, holding his scythe, under a bright orange sky, with farmhouses sat in the distance. Date: circa 1915

Brownies harvesting the cornfields Date: 1910

The Reaper
A woodblock print portrayal of a farmer an rest, with his reaping scythe laid on the floor beside him. Date: circa 1923

Agricultural labourers, The End of a Long Day Date: 1891

The Grim Reaper, by John Everett Millais
The Grim Reaper by John Everett Millais Date: 1895

Old Man Men Life Death Grim Reaper Oval Memento
old, man, men, life, death, grim, reaper, oval, memento, mori, skeleton, carrying, scythe, reminder, mortality, 11075719

The Triumph of Death, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1525?1569), Flemish Renaissance painter. The Triumph of Death. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado. Madrid. Spain. Date: 1562

Initial. Missal
Missal. Initial detail. Friar near death. Latin. Codex 9. 1524. Printing Rosenbach (Barcelona, Spain). Chapter Archive of Tortosa. Catalonia. Spain

Allegory of the French Revolution. French citizen blindfolded trying to take the liberty, equality and fraternity, which mocked by exposing him to trip over rocks, fall, or meet with death

Cartoon, Reckoning without their host, WW1
Cartoon, Reckoning without their host. Defeated at Verdun, Germany, Prussia and Death walk away despondently. A smiling French soldier in the background says they had everything planned

Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1
Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, showing Kaiser Wilhelm being carried along on a float, with various figures around him, including Death, a spy, a sorceress

Illustration, Death and Doctor Hornbook
Illustration to Death and Doctor Hornbook, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Cartoon, The Harvest of War, WW1
Cartoon, The Harvest of War, showing a German general with his head bowed on a battlefield, while the ghosts of dead soldiers march past with agricultural implements

MARBLE TOMB/GOZO/MALTA
A representation of Death adorns this elaborate marble tomb cover in the Cathedral in Victoria (Rabat) on Gozo, part of the Maltese archipelago Date: 2005

POE/POEM/THE RAVEN/C19TH
"Sorrow for the lost Lenore"; the man contemplates his lost love. Date: First published: 1845

WILHELM II German Emperor has a vision of Death and asks himself: "Will it be my turn next?" 1916

French satire on Otto von Bismarck with grim reaper 1892
Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck(1815-1898), Prussian statesman and first chancellor of the German Empire. Depicted here in a French satire entitled "L'Aveu"

Death personified on a Tarot card
Death personified as a skeleton with a scythe on a Tarot card. Date: 1926

Poem illustrated by Walter Crane. Date: 1884

Man and woman of Hamburg, Germany, 1818. They carry baskets of produce on yokes across their shoulders. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being

Regency gentleman riding a horse down hill, while a couple fall off a horse in the background. How to Ride Genteel and Agreable Down Hill

French womens costumes of the 15th century. Poetess Christine de Pizan writing in her room A, women in hennin headdresses B, D, and woman in tall headdress hawking on horseback C

Frontispiece with skeleton of death seated with scythe and globe. Vignettes of death attacking a baby, an invalid, a glutton and a drunkard

The Months Welcoming the Young Year. 1860

The Year of the Poets -- Father Time falling through the sky (time passes). Date: 1845

Itinerant turner wearing a dress covered in
Itinerant lathe turner (tourneuse) wearing a dress covered in wooden toys and games. She holds a head for a wig 1, scythe 2, trumpet 3, flutes 4, lace bobbins 5, rolling pin 6, egg 8, goblet 9

A triumphal carriage with female reapers holding scythes
A triumphal carriage decorated with fruit and flowers from the harvest accompanied by female reapers (Schnitterinnen) holding scythes. A woman with a bushel of wheat sits on a throne

Egyptian wheat and grape agriculture
Egyptian agriculture: priest of Osiris with sceptre 1, following a man with plow behind two yoked oxen 2, man sowing seed 3 from a box 4, men harvesting wheat with a scythe 5, 6

Title page vignette of goddess of agriculture
Title page with vignette of Demeter goddess of agriculture with scythe amid statuary in a park. Engraving by Pillement finished by Nee after a painting by Percier

Harvest
Woodcut of man harvesting wheat with scythe

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