This is the real thing

This image features a female figure wearing a laurel wreath that radiates light and wearing a delicate dress that reveals her breast. Next to her is a wicker basket and a sheep. On the left, a man with long hair and a bushy beard, holding a hoe in one hand, looks attentively at what the woman is pointing at: a tree with fruit in the upper right corner of the print.

In this scene, the painter has depicted a diagonal line formed by the hoe, the woman's finger and the tree in the upper part of the print, three elements that allow for the interpretation of the print or play a decisive role in it.

The female figure is clearly similar to the character in the engraving No. 79, The Truth Died and No. 80, If She Will Rise Again, although it might be thought that Goya has turned her in this case into an allegory of Agriculture, wearing a laurel wreath and standing next to a tree bearing fruit. It is possible that she is explaining to the farmer that, through calm work, he will obtain the fruits of the earth in a harmonious way, represented by the tree on the right-hand side of the print.

The importance of nature in this engraving, a fertile generator of abundance and life, could be related to the text that Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (Gijón, 1744-Puerto de Vega, Navia, 1811) published in 1790 entitled Spectacles and Public Entertainments in Spain. On pages 98 and 99 of this book, he wrote the following: "A free and happy people will be active and industrious, and if they are, they will be well tempered and obedient to justice (...). This people will be more eager to get rich, because they will know how to increase their pleasure as they increase their fortune". Jovellanos, like many writers of the time, collaborated with the government by writing works exhorting the population to devote themselves to agriculture, which ensured that the lands, many of which had been sold by the Church to private individuals, would be worked. 
The new owners of these territories were also encouraged to improve the condition of the peasants, which could lead to an increase in productivity.

The series of The Disasters of War, which had begun with the anguished image of engraving no. 1, Sad forebodings of what is to happen, in which the imminence of misfortune was foreshadowed, ends with a message of serenity. Goya augurs harmony as the foundation of progress.