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This half-tone reproduction of apple gatherers in an orchard is a water-colour version of the lithograph Shannon published in the 1893 volume of The Dial. In the foreground of the image four women recline on the ground as if on break. The face of the woman in the centre foreground is in full view, while the two women to the right are in profile facing left. All three look up at a figure on a ladder in the left foreground. Below the ladder, in the bottom left foreground, the fourth woman sits in profile facing the other resting women and holding a fiddle or violin on her lap. There is also a basket of apples to her left at the foot of the ladder. The figure on the ladder, too dark to determine their gender, is reaching up to pick apples. In the middle ground at right, a woman in a long dark dress stands beside another ladder, facing right and reaching up to pick apples while she stands on the ground. A bright sun beyond the shade of the foreground illuminates the background of the image between these two rows of apple trees. Amidst the light, two lovers kiss at the centre back of the image. While details of these lovers are unclear to the viewer, they dominate the image because of the light that surrounds them. In the ground between the lovers and the resting women, are two large piles of apples, one on each side of the image.

This half-tone reproduction of apple gatherers in an orchard is a water-colour version of the lithograph Shannon published in the 1893 volume of The Dial. In the foreground of the image four women recline on the ground as if on break. The face of the woman in the centre foreground is in full view, while the two women to the right are in profile facing left. All three look up at a figure on a ladder in the left foreground. Below the ladder, in the bottom left foreground, the fourth woman sits in profile facing the other resting women and holding a fiddle or violin on her lap.