portray Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 explores hitherto unrecognized eu diversifications within the phenomena of rural labour imagery, quite in Scotland. In exploring those differences relative to Scotland and Europe it seems to be to strengthen a brand new knowing of the commonalities and idiosyncrasies of rural labour imagery that have usually been handled as homogenous. missing the unique research that has been accorded different pictures, writing approximately Scottish portray has frequently been appended to analyses of English or French imagery. It has regularly been understood as intellectually divorced from the occasionally brutal realities of evolving Scottish nineteenth-century urbanism, or just overlooked. portray Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 units out systematically to debate the Scottish rural portray with regards to its specific Scottish historic context, either sociological and aesthetic and its English and ecu opposite numbers. along canonical Scottish photographs by means of significant figures resembling James Guthrie, the e-book explores many hitherto below researched and unconsidered work via nineteenth-century Scottish artists, and considers them when it comes to significant English and Continental Realist and Romantic painters. The juxtaposition of J.F. Millet with W.D. McKay, and Edwin Landseer with George Reid makes for a quantity that might allure either to an educational viewers and to at least one attracted to eu artwork background extra generally.