page_title: Yokel
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caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: illustratedcatal00amer_10 (find matches) Title: Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: American Art Association Subjects: Leon Hirsch Publisher: New York&#160;: American Art Association Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: NIERS (THE YOUNGER) F1.EMISH: 1610—1690 INTERIOR WITH FIGURES Ji jJJ (Panel) ^ Height, III/4 inches; width, 8^4 inches A SNAPPING fire ))lazes on the hearth in a tall fireplace at theleft, in a humble interior with olive-brown walls. A peasantin brown who smokes a lon^-stemmed clay pipe stands with hisback to the fire, one hand behind him, the other attending hisf)ipe. Seated on a box or blocks of wood before the fire a manin a green tunic and brown pantaloons, and wearing a longfeather in his rather rakish hat, is reading from an unfoldedpaper or sheet of music, a pitcher at his side. Like the smoker,he is seen in profile, but facing the fire. Behind him anotherpeasant in brown blouse and breeches stands leaning againstthe wall, his back to the onlooker. Signed at the loxcer right zcith the monogravi, D.T. Dr. W. R. V.ilentiner wrote on May 6, 1911: The iiainting by Teniers theYounger, depicting three figures in an inn, is in my opinion a genuine, early pieceof work by this artist. Text Appearing After Image: No. 10PEASANTS UEPAST BY ADRIAKN VAN OSIADK No. 10ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE Dutch: 1610—1685PEASANTS REPAST ec/^ (Panel) Height, 9^ inches; length, 13l/&gt; inches Five peasants of heavy features and linlboiis noses are refresh-ing the inner man with food and drink. Three are groupedabout a table, seated on chairs or benches—one venerable andbent-shouldered in an ancient ))lue costume who leans over thetable, knife and spoon in hand, talking and facing the left,turned three-quarters from the s):)ectator; one in an old redblouse, schoppen in hand, across the table; a third at the leftsprawling in his chair and like his fellows having a maudlinstare, who faces the spectator, knife in hand and jar in thebend of his elbow, this man wearing a gray-white shirt andyellow pantaloons. Behind them a man in gray-blue blouseand red cap stands drinking from a pitcher, and far at the left,beyond an overturned bench, a squat yokel seated on a barrel-top turns from his soup to look with oi^en mouth and Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Yokel is one of several derogatory terms referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people. The term is of uncertain etymology and is only attributed from the early 19th century.
  Yokels are depicted as straightforward, simple, naive, and easily deceived, failing to see through false pretenses. They are also depicted as talking about bucolic topics like cows, sheep, goats, wheat, alfalfa, fields, crops, tractors, and buxom wenches to the exclusion of all else. Broadly, they are portrayed as unaware of or uninterested in the world outside their own surroundings.
  In the United States, the term is used to describe someone living in rural areas. Synonyms for yokel include bubba, country bumpkin, hayseed, chawbacon, rube, redneck, hillbilly, and hick.
  In the UK, yokels are traditionally depicted as wearing the old West Country/farmhand's dress of straw hat and white smock, chewing or sucking a piece of straw and carrying a pitchfork or rake, listening to "Scrumpy and Western" music. Yokels are portrayed as living in rural areas of Britain such as the West Country, East Anglia, the Yorkshire Dales and Wales.
context_section_description: Yokel is one of several derogatory terms referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people. The term is of uncertain etymology and is only attributed from the early 19th century.
  Yokels are depicted as straightforward, simple, naive, and easily deceived, failing to see through false pretenses. They are also depicted as talking about bucolic topics like cows, sheep, goats, wheat, alfalfa, fields, crops, tractors, and buxom wenches to the exclusion of all else. Broadly, they are portrayed as unaware of or uninterested in the world outside their own surroundings.
  In the United States, the term is used to describe someone living in rural areas. Synonyms for yokel include bubba, country bumpkin, hayseed, chawbacon, rube, redneck, hillbilly, and hick.
  In the UK, yokels are traditionally depicted as wearing the old West Country/farmhand's dress of straw hat and white smock, chewing or sucking a piece of straw and carrying a pitchfork or rake, listening to "Scrumpy and Western" music. Yokels are portrayed as living in rural areas of Britain such as the West Country, East Anglia, the Yorkshire Dales and Wales. British yokels speak with country dialects from various parts of Britain.
  The development of television brought many previously isolated communities into mainstream British culture in the 1950s and 1960s. The Internet continues this integration, further eroding the town/country divide. In the 21st century British country people are less frequently seen as yokels. In the British TV Show The Two Ronnies, it was asserted that despite political correctness, it is possible to poke fun at yokels as no-one sees themselves as being one.
caption: A painting of three peasants by Teniers the Younger
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