Posted on: 23 January 2012

A watercolour of a a farmer with four bullocks threshing paddy. From a group of 35 drawings of trades and occupations - 1826

Marks and inscriptions:
'Dana nickalnewalla. Treader out of grain.'
John Hall 1819 and C. Wilmot 1821

Source: V&A, London


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Amazing. I did not know of this method of threshing grain.

This method is still on.