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Title:
Farmworkers in Guipuzcoa
Document number:
272
Author:
Barker, Bligh
Crocker, Sydney
Printer:
Published by T. Mclean, 26 Haymarket, London
Book/ Album / Dossier:
Sketches from the basque provinces of Spain, illustrative of the character and costume of the basques and the scenery of the northern provinces
Format date:
1839
Topic date:
1839
Physical description:
1 37 x 27 cm engraving on a 54 x 36 cm page; col
Notes:
Autographed. Description by the autores: The general costume of the field-labourers of the province of Guipuzcoa. The implements of husbandry in the foreground are used in the manner of a spade, obviating the use of the plough; a process of turning the soil, which, though slower is infinitely the more effectual. This class of basques evince an antipathy to wearing the jacket in the ordinary way...
Subjects:
Science and Technology-Tools-Farming
Objects-Farming tools
Leisure-Clothing
Trades-Peasants
Trades-Shepherds
Natural landscape-Mountains
Place names:
Gipuzkoa - Gipuzkoa
Signature:
ZM: P,4
Location:
Museo Zumalakarregi Museoa
2013 Department of Culture, Youth and Sport - Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa