Back to basics: the plough, the grape, the farm, and the beehive

BL Burney 272; Various including Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis; c. 1473 CE; Germany or Austria (Melk?); ff.18r, 26r, 34v, 43v

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“As, then, we do not compel the horse to plough, or the bull to hunt, but set each animal to that for which it is by nature fitted; so, placing our finger on what is man's peculiar and distinguishing characteristic above other creatures, we invite him — 1/

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'The Plough,' is representative of the style of painting William Roberts began perfecting during WW2 and became his signature style for the next three decades; a simple pictorial language with strikingly cubist figures. This is from 1944.

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How lovely: 'God spede the & sende us korne enow' - even the oxen look happy (though the ploughmen less so), and we’re suddenly in the room with the scribe illustrating the frontispiece to his 14thC manuscript of Piers Plowman (https://t.co/9KJTxTGLCX, f.001v).

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Well said Ma'am

if God spare my lyfe ere many yeares, I wyl cause a boye that dryveth the plough, shall knowe more of the scripture then thou (the Pope) doest.”

even a “plowboy” could interpret Scripture in the main without the necessary help of the Church

Preach ma'am preach

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Terence went third (11%), and I got a little weird with him.
Mostly part-arachnid, part-crustacean. The pincers felt sort of like an equivalent to his plough, somewhat.
That probably may not be the same case for the engines, however.

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The theme set by today is Animals, and our inspiration is the Robert Bevan artwork in our collection.

The Turn Rice-Plough, Sussex, c1909
Ploughing on the Downs, c1907
The Ploughing Team, Dawn, 1906

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This is for Tonight, find the plough, look directly under the lower right star that forms the box. It should be about half way between this star and the horizon. After 23:30 is the best time to look. Time is running out, closest to earth tomorrow and it's moving away from the sun

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Frenchie fren - 4:43pm The Plough, Dulwich

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ssstudies (Frederic Church, Augustus Lamplough, Edwin Landseer)

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