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Occupation title (english) |
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Hiscode |
14120 |
Description of Image |
A young man wearing a soft, brimmed hat walks with a collection of wooden sieves strapped onto his back, holding one sieve in each hand. His mouth is open as he cries out his wares on a town street. A gabled building is in the background at the right. Between the sieve‑seller and the building, a woman wearing an apron over her skirt bends slightly at the waist and sifts something onto the ground with a large sieve she holds in both hands.
Sieves were exceedingly practical items, used by housewives to sift barley, dried peas and beans, rice, and flour free of dirt, dust, chaff, pebble...
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Gender |
Male |
Title of the image |
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Translation (English) |
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Language source |
German |
Country source |
Germany |
Artist's name |
Jost Amman |
Artist's years and locations |
1539-1591 |
Date of creation |
1568 |
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Plate |
Collection name |
Ständebuch |
Provenance |
Jost Amman's Staende und handwerter mit versen von Hans Sachs. Frankfurt a/M 1568, Reprint Muenchen 1884 |
Status |
52 |
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