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 | | Chronologically between these works is the "Countryside around Dixton Manor", a magnificent haymaking panorama painted by an artist as yet unknown, in Gloucestershire, England, in the early eighteenth century. |
 | | The other, which hangs nearby and is shown below, depicts Dixton Manor itself, the Manor Farm, a few cottages, several small fields crowded with livestock, the family (named Higford) alighting from a coach, and one barely visible haystack in the middle distance to the left. |
 | | Careful examination revealed a peaceful army of at least 133 people (71 male, 62 female) waging a cheerful collective campaign to bring in the hay before the weather, signified here by scudding clouds beyond the Cotswold horizon, could spoil the harvest on which the animals in the companion painting depended. |
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