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Description: | Gleanings were leftover stalks of corn gathered by hand after the main reaping had taken place. The old woman in this picture is using a wooden threshing tool to beat the seed free from the stalks. A pile of cornseed lies on the sheet in front of her. For larger quantities, steam threshing was beginning to be used at this time. Both the working-life subject and the broad brush technique of the picture were fashionable at this period. Ralph Hedley painted many studies of North East farm workers. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art movement work living in the North East art North East artists children women | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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