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De Wint also exhibited a smaller picture with the same title at the British Institution in 1816.  Harvesting scenes were a favourite subject with the artist early in his career, and particularly the panoramic view (compare the watercolour \"Cornfield with Harvesters\" also in the V&A (museum number 1201-1886) and also the oil painting \"Haymaking\" (museum number 260-1872).\r\n\r\nExhibition Label downloaded from Elise - author unknown:\r\n\"In a nation such as England, even after the Industrial Revolution, the autumn harvest was symbolically as well as in practical terms the most important event in the agricultural year .  De Wint painted many panoramic views of corn and hay fields, usually at the time of greatest activity when the crops are being gathered in and the extent of the coming year's prosperity is being assessed.  Better known as a master of watercolour - and he is represented as such in this exhibition - De Wint achieves the same luminescence in his paintings in oils.  Without doubt, he 'romanticizes' his scenes of hard labour in the countryside.  Harvesting can never have been as idyllic an experience as he suggests here.  But for an urban audience and metropolitan collectors of landscape paintings, this image of England as a rich and fertile Arcadia was irresistible.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"De Wint, Peter","id":"A2112"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"canvas","id":"AAT14078"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oil on canvas","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AG3581","2006AP3730","2006AM2292","2017KE2147"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"87","id":"THES49709"},"free":"","case":"WE","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1815","earliest":"1810-01-01","latest":"1819-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Mrs Helen Tatlock, daughter of the artist","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"104.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"163.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"115","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"framed","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"175","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"framed","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <i>Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860</i>, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given by Mrs Helen Tatlock, daughter of the artist, 1872","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oil painting, 'A Cornfield', Peter de Wint, ca. 1815","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, <u>Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860</u>, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 68-69\n\nPayne, C.<u> Toil and Plenty: Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England 1780-1890</u>, Yale Centre for British Art, 1993, pp. 93-95"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Landscape","id":"x31100"},{"text":"Agriculture","id":"AAT54463"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["258-1872"],"accessionNumberNum":"258","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1872,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-12","recordCreationDate":"1999-12-15","availableToBook":false}}