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Engraving of farm workers harvesting in a field, with haystacks, a cart, and a distant town with church spires under cloudy sky.

De twaalf maanden

An engraved landscape shows peasants reaping, raking and loading hay in a open field, with haystacks and a cart on the left and right. A walled town with church spires and a river stretches across the middle distance under a cloudy sky.

Artist
Pieter van der Borcht (I)
Date
1545-1608
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 2962 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

Español: Trabajos de la cosecha en un paisaje rural, de Los doce meses

Un grabado muestra campesinos segando, rastrillando y cargando heno en un campo abierto, con montones de heno y una carreta a ambos lados. Al fondo, una ciudad amurallada con torres de iglesia y un río se extiende bajo un cielo nublado.

Português: Trabalhos da colheita em paisagem rural, de Os doze meses

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