The summer season: the months of June, July and August. The activities associated with summer: harvesting grain, cutting the grain with the scythe, collecting ears and binding them into sheaves. To the right in the foreground the resting, eating and drinking during the harvest. Below the scene is a text in Latin, Summer Aestas The Four Seasons (series title), print maker: Pieter van der Heyden, intermediary draughtsman: Pieter Bruegel (I), (mentioned on object), publisher: Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), (possibly), Amsterdam, 1570 and/or 1601 - 1652, paper, engraving, h 227 mm × w 286 mm

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