2-979-655 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Haymaking in Switzerland" - painted by H. Moore, from the Exhibition of the National Institution, 1857. Engraving of '..."Haymaking in Switzerland: Lausanne. Painted on the spot"...what can be more true to nature than those sturdy oxen standing in the sunshine, with their drooping white eyelashes, and the shadows from their ears and horns creeping along their rough and shaggy sides? Why, laziness and good living on such rich, fragrant, flowery provender as that before them are marked in every trait of their condition. They are so perfectly painted as to form unquestionably the great attraction of the picture...Agriculturists will, no doubt, find some amusement, not merely in the uneconomical employment of a yoke of oxen to so small a load, but in the primeval simplicity of the method by which they are attached to the cart, and likewise in the primitive lumbering form of the cart itself'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.