Antique Print of Hop Pickers by Vivares, c.1760

Other Prints · 18th century

Antique Print of Hop Pickers by Vivares, c.1760

€ 1 000

One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.

Date: 1760
Sheet size: 39.5 × 49 cm (15.6 × 19.3 in)
Condition: Fair
Reference: BG-12913-1

Condition

Repaired: Two repaired tears on top. Image trimmed. Two repaired tears on top. General age-related toning, sl. stained. Blank verso. Please study images carefully.

About this sheet

Antique print of hop pickers. It shows a family outside a thatched cottage with casement windows, gathering hops; an elderly woman sitting under a tre to left with a cat, picking hops from a branch and putting them into a basket, a man carrying a branch loaded with hops towards women and children in the yard to right, who sort them into baskets; with branches of hops standing in the ground behind the cottage, sheep grazing in a field beyond.

This print is, most likely, a proof before writing. Engraving by F. Vivares after G. Smith. Published circa 1760.