Farmer's boy in smock leaning on a pitchfork. In coarse linen frock with stitched or embroidered front. trousers, striped hose, gaiters and boots. The small keg contains his beverage (small beer) when employed in the field. Southern England farm labourer. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving by William Alexander from his own Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English, John Murray, London, 1814.

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