House Gallery

Feudal lord instructing peasant workers

Peasants receiving their lord's orders before going to work, 1400s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a manuscript miniature illustration

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1400s, 15th Century, Agriculture, Art, Castle, Country Side, Europe, European, Farm, Farmer, Feudal, Feudalism, Historic Heritage Vintage Traditional Old Fashioned, History, House, Illustration, Lord, Manor, Medieval, Middle Ages, Peasant, Rural, Scythe, Serf, Sickle, Tool

Home in ancient Rome

Roman house, viewed from the atrium through the tablinumin to the peristyle and a garden.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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HOUS2A-00141

French-Canadian woman baking bread in an outdoor oven, circa 1900.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a turn-of-the-century illustration

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