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Engraving of harvesters on ladders picking fruit in an orchard, with baskets on the ground, a castle on a hill, and a formal garden beyond.

September: harvest and fruit picking, from The Twelve Months

A black-and-white engraving titled September from the twelve months series shows workers on ladders picking fruit from trees while others gather it into baskets in an orchard. Beyond, a hilltop castle overlooks a formal garden with geometric parterres, an ox-drawn cart, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

Artist
Pieter van der Borcht (I)
Date
1545-1608
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 3026 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1608.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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