Occupation title source |
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Keyser |
Occupation title (english) |
Holy Roman Emperor |
Hiscode |
20210 |
Description of Image |
A broadbacked woman sells milk from two buckets, which ordinarily hang from chains on a wooden yoke over her shoulders. She has lowered the buckets so that a female customer, kneeling down to the pails, can dip in a ceramic milk pot she holds in both hands. The seller's back is to the viewer. Behind these two women, on the left, is the window and steeple of a church. In the background to the right, a second milkmaid bearing milk pails suspended from a yoke walks towards the two women. She has her left hand on her hip and does not look especially pleased. Conceivably her rival got to the custom...
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Gender |
Male |
Title of the image |
Keyser |
Translation (English) |
Holy Roman Emperor |
Language source |
German |
Country source |
Germany |
Artist's name |
Jost Amman |
Artist's years and locations |
1539-1591 |
Date of creation |
1568 |
Medium |
Plate |
Collection name |
Ständebuch |
Provenance |
Jost Amman's Staende und handwerter mit versen von Hans Sachs. Frankfurt a/M 1568, Reprint Muenchen 1884 |
Status |
51 |
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