Occupation title source   Schwarzferber
Occupation title (english) Dyer
Hiscode 75622
Description of Image A male peddler, wearing a soft cap, has a wooden yoke across his shoulder. He has lowered two large wicker baskets onto the ground, and holds the chains from which the baskets originally hung. The baskets are filled with wooden cooking pot covers and ladles. A curly-haired woman, wearing an apron, kneels close to the ground, carefully inspecting the contents of the peddler's basket. So intent on the task, she practically steps out of the mule on her right foot. Their transaction takes place in a village with buildings, which have long, sloping thatched roofs. In the background, a covered wagon...
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Gender Male
Title of the image Schwarzferber
Translation (English) Dyer
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


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