Agricultural Laborer

Attributed to John Thomson (Scottish, 1837 - 1921)

Dateca. 1870

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 3 7/16 × 2 1/8 inches (8.69 × 5.41 cm)
Mount: 4 1/8 × 2 7/16 inches (10.49 × 6.15 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.67.62

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InscribedPrinted captions on paper, attached to mount verso, in black type: "Agricultural Laborer. / The Chinese are careful and laborious / farmers -- and there are numerous and / practical treatises, proclamations and / pamphlets published, and in general / circulation, explaining the minutest / details for the cultivation of cereals, / cotton, silk, &c., with clearness and / precision. --Some of their rules are / handed down from antiquity, and are / adhered to from generation to genera- / tion with a tenacity which cannot be / overcome. / The Scythe shown is one of Eu- / ropean manufacture, but the gardeners / employed by foreigners soon become adepts in its use; and although they steadily resist any innovation in their / mode of planting and succession of / crops &c., they do not object to using / foreign implements to save themselves / labour."

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DescriptionHand colored image of older man holding scythe and standing next to young child and ladder.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.

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