DescriptionWood Engraving (1933). Original size 20.3 x 27.3cm. Eric Gill’s comment on Leighton’s ‘Farmer’s Year’ prints is nowhere more apt than for this print: ‘Bewick and Raverat’ wrote Gill, ‘have done little engravings that are big in spirit, but no one in our time has succeeded better than Clare Leighton in penetrating the breath of the life of the earth on a scale so grand’. (Gill’s remark can be found in Gollancz’s publicity leaflet for ‘The Farmer’s Year’, 1933).
