Rural Gallery

Medieval rose garden

Garden with roses enclosed by a wattle fence, from Boccacio's "Cento Norelle," 1490.
Hand-colored woodcut reproductioin of a 15th century illustration

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Medieval manor and fields

Arrangement of manor lands and a farming village in the late Middle Ages.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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Before and after views of Kumasi, Ghana, as a British protectorate, 1890s

British view of how the Ashanti will live after English occupation, 1890s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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