An impression of the entire plate, showing the portrait of the artist now engraved in the previous blank half. The scholar has fallen asleep in his arm-chair, before a table laden with papers and a glass jar containing a foetus; the forms of skulls and skeletons stand out fantastically along the walls of the cabinet.
An impression of the engraved half of the plate only. The scholar has fallen asleep in his arm-chair, before a table laden with papers and a glass jar containing a foetus; the forms of skulls and skeletons stand out fantastically along the walls of the cabinet.
An impression of the left half of the plate only. The scholar has fallen asleep in his arm-chair, before a table laden with papers and a glass jar containing a foetus; the forms of skulls and skeletons stand out fantastically along the walls of the cabinet.
An impression of the entire plate, i.e., the engraved and the blank halves. The scholar has fallen asleep in his arm-chair, before a table laden with papers and a glass jar containing a foetus; the forms of skulls and skeletons stand out fantastically along the walls of the cabinet.
The sower goes towards the right and throws the seed with this left hand; at left in the center, dead tree trunks; at right, two horses harnessed to a plough; background of hilly landscape, with steeple, crags, bushed, houses; signed at bottom of the plate in the center "A. Legros". Two lines in the height divide the composition and indicate what should be cut off.