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| Vincent van Gogh Woman planting Potatoes 1885 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous Dutch Artist after Jan Saenredam Adam tilling the Soil ca. 1650-1700 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Adam Elsheimer Excavation of the True Cross before 1610 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Tiburzio Passarotti Youth lifting a Rock ca. 1590 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Anna Ancher Harvest Time 1901 oil on canvas Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland, Denmark |
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| Franz Xaver Reinhold Corn Harvest ca. 1840 oil on paper, mounted on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Hieronymus Hopfer after Marcantonio Raimondi Harvesters overseen by Silenus and the Pope ca. 1540 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Anton Romako Peasant Girl in the Roman Campagna 1873 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Adriaen van de Velde Study of Farm Woman before 1672 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Adriaen van de Velde Peasant on Horseback before 1672 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Sebald Beham Farmer going to Market 1520 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| August Sander Young Farmer 1912-13 gelatin silver print Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Daniel Steudner after Matthias Scheits Winter (series, The Four Seasons) ca. 1515-20 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Daniel Steudner after Matthias Scheits Spring (series, The Four Seasons) ca. 1515-20 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Leopold Kalckreuth Sunday Afternoon 1893 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Ludwig Johann Passini Pumpkin Seller in Chioggia 1876 watercolor on paper Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
The next winter, Aristides, the son of Archippus, one of the commanders of a fleet which the Athenians had sent out to gather tribute from their confederates, apprehended Artaphernes, a Persian, in the town of Eion upon the river Strymon, going from the king to Lacedaemon. When he was brought to Athens, the Athenians translated his letters out of the Assyrian language into Greek and read them; wherein, amongst many other things that were written to the Lacedaemonians, the principal was this: that he knew not what they meant, for many ambassadors came, but they spake not the same thing; if therefore they had any thing to say certain, they should send somebody to him with this Persian. But Artaphernes they sent afterwards away in a galley, with ambassadors of their own, to Ephesus. And there encountering the news that king Artaxerxes, the son of Xerxes, was lately dead (for about that time he died), they returned home.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)