Spring Harrowing by John Nash

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This exquisite lithograph was originally created to illustrate Men and the Fields, a classic of rural literature by Adrian Bell. Writing about the book, Ronald Blythe - himself a g reat literary chronicler of the countryside described it as a “beautiful liaison of text and illustration,” praising the way both Bell and Nash captured the immediacy of rural life: “that particular threshing week, that actual market day, those snows or rains.” The moment captured here is spring - the season of quiet promise. The farmer prepares the soil, while the trees, tipped with new buds, stand on the brink of full leaf. SizeImage: 20 × 14 cmPaper: 30 × 21 cm Show more