A busy scene in a farm yard. In the left foreground a woman (Aestas?) sits on a rock, while at her feet a woman spoons soup from a large bowl. She leans toward the boy at her side who holds a full soup bowl in his hands. To her left a young man approaches with two fowl hanging from the pole over his shoulder. Sheep mull about in the center foreground while on the right an old man sheers a sheep held by another young boy. In the background a man cuts rushes (?) which are loaded into a cart (with ox). In the left background stands a hut in front of which a group of men work at thatching a roof
Description:
Title written in brown ink above image, some letters very faint: Æstas., Signed in the lower right corner: Mary Walpole fecit., Upper left corner scortched with some loss at the margin., and For further information, consult library staff.