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Engraving of a man sowing seed from a sack across a furrowed field, with a plowman and oxen in the distance and a harrow in the foreground.

September sowing and ploughing, Twaalf maanden engraving

An engraving in a decorative border shows a man in a short tunic striding left across a foreground furrowed field, scattering seed from a sack. Beyond, a plowman drives oxen across fields near trees, a harrow lies in the lower right, and hills and a village complete the landscape.

Artist
Etienne Delaune
Date
1566
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3288 × 2458 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1566.
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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