A print from a disbound book of the British Empire published 1897. With an unrelated picture on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 8.75" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1897 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
A PRIMITIVE THRESHING-MACHINE.
There is a Scriptural prohibition against joining the ox and the ass under the yoke of the plough, but no similar authority forbids the use of this rather strange association for the purpose here depicted. The scene is laid in the island of Malta, and the two oxen and the ass are engaged in threshing, or treading out, the wheat. The persistence of ancient methods of agriculture is remarkable. In parts of England oxen are still yoked to the plough, but it is a surprise to find that this primitive, though picturesque, process should obtain in Malta, an island crammed with the latest appliances which British ingenuity supplies for the purposes of war, and garrisoned by several thousand British troops.