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The foremost harvester, a small figure in the middle distance, is drinking from a flagon held in his left hand, his right holding his scythe. Behind him, a man cuts hay, his back to the viewer. Further away, beyond a slender tree, two men and a woman are raking and stacking hay. Male harvesters wear white shirts over coloured hose, the two nearest in pink and blue. A distant building at the right has three small windows, set one above two over a door in the gable end, and a larger window on the side wall.\r\n\r\n<b>Border\n</b>\r\nA thin pale blue ribbon spirals loosely round a cream and buff rod on an extremely narrow brown ground. Corners and centre sides are marked by a tiny five-petalled flower (four petals only, lower right).  Far right in the lower outer blue edging, the name STEPHEN . DE . MAY, preceded by a minute triangle, is woven in yellow . Low on the right side edge is the red cross on a white shield denoting English manufacture.\r\n\n<b>Visual Sources</b>\r\n\r\nHayfield and harvesters come from the background scene to&lt;i&gt; July&lt;/i&gt; in &lt;i&gt;The ‘Mortlake’ Months&lt;/i&gt;; though the building seems closest to one in a late version of &lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Decembe&lt;/i&gt;r&lt;/i&gt;. Foliage that fills those areas where full-scale figures had occupied the original design may have come from some workshop series of ‘forest-work’. 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