'Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise Around...' Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonet, 'Harrahing in harvest' (1877). reminds us of the particular appeal to the Victorian sensibility of ripening or harvested corn. To the eye is presented a challenging multiplicity. To the mind is suggested biblical metaphors of abundance, and nostalgia for England's rural past. In works like Hunt's 'The Hireling Shepherd', 1851, (City of Manchester Art Galleries), C.A.Collins' 'The Good Harvest', 1855 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) and in Madox Brown's landscapes, ripe corn is depicted with hairbreadth precision. There is a particular affinity between Henry White and Madox Brown. Like Brown's 'Walton-on-the-Naze', White's images celebrate the mere existence - the 'thingness' of the corn: 'These things', as Hopkins expressed it, 'those things, were here and but the beholder Wanting...'