Pen and ink drawing of a bent man digging with a spade beside a bare, twisted tree, with a thatched farmhouse in the background.

Man Digging in the Orchard

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bent figure in a long coat digging with a spade beside a gnarled, leafless fruit tree. Behind them stretch flat fields and a low thatched farmhouse under a sky sketched in fine hatching.

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1883
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Size: 3162 × 2356 px

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Public domain · Vincent van Gogh died 1890 and the work dates by 1883; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Vincent van Gogh, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

19th century 1880s 1883 sketch pen and ink drawing van gogh rural landscape countryside farmhouse orchard monochrome