Toil and plenty : images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890
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Toil and plenty : images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890
（Yale agrarian studies）
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Press, 1993
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Yale agrarian studies series
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"Nottingham University Art Gallery, 7 October-14 November 1993; Yale Center for British Art, 15 January-13 March 1994"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 211-214
Includes index
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Discusses the ideological uses of agricultural imagery during the period 1780-1890, exploring how and why the myth of rural contentment was perpetuated by these images and how the images contrast with the actual features of 19th-century rural life.
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