RM2K04070–The Vintage, in Medoc, near Bordeaux, 1854. Grape-picking in France. '"There are no idle spectators at a vintage, all the world must work; and so I speedily found myself - after being most cordially welcomed by a fat old gentleman, hoarse with bawling, in a pair of very dirty shirt sleeves and a pouring perspiration - with a huge pair of scissors in my hand, cutting off the branches, in the midst of an uproarious troop of young men, young women, and children - threading the avenues between the plants, stripping with wonderful dexterity the clustered branches - their hands, indeed, gliding
RM2RRJ92B–Hop-picking, 1858. Seasonal workers. 'Beautiful as the hop-gardens appear when the hops are in their pride and prime, and ere a pole has been pulled or a bine cut, yet to us they seem more beautiful when the fruit of the farmer's toil, and of God's goodness, is being gathered in...In one part stand the tall hop-poles, like an army, the bines twining lovingly around, and the green leaves and yellow hops hanging gracefully from them...forming perfect festoons...whilst the air is filled with the delightful aroma of the hops...between the ranks of the poles are placed the "bins," into wh
RM2K0406K–The Chateau Lafitte, Medoc, near Bordeaux, 1854. Wine-making estate in France. 'At first, I was dainty in my selection of the grapes to be chosen, eschewing the underripe and the over-ripe. A damsel beside me observed this: 'Cut away, she said; 'every grape makes wine.' 'Yes; but the caterpillars?' 'They give it a body !' I was talking to the lord of the vineyard, when some one...dashed at him from behind; and...squashed a huge bunch of grapes over his mouth and nose, rubbing in the bleeding fruit as if it were a healing ointment, while streams of juice squirted from between the fingers of the
RM2X21W5W–"Grape Gathering near Naples", by A. De Curzon, in the Exhibition of Fine Arts at Paris, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'The subject of this picture, by an artist whose reputation has long been established, was suggested by Lamartine's "Graziella," a romance full of picturesque description fitted to inspire a painter of sentiment. The scene depicted is that in which Graziella is employed in grape-gathering with her two young brothers. The landscape portion of the tableau, though of secondary importance, has been painted with care, and faithfully represents a vintage scene a
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