1-150-023 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Seasons, c1050, (1843). Copy of a manuscript showing agricultural occupations from January to June. January, ploughing and sowing; February, pruning vines; March, digging and raking; April, drinking in honour of the pagan goddess Eostre; May, shepherds grazing their sheep; June, cutting timber. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).