Occupation title source   Schuhmacher
Occupation title (english) Cobbler/Shoemaker
Hiscode 80110
Description of Image A stout woman, wearing an old-fashioned, broad straw hat, placed her wicker basket containing a pot of mustard on a bench outside the door of a house. She scooped out a large dollop of mustard with a wooden ladle and is about to spoon it into a small bowl held towards her by the customer, a woman standing in the doorway behind the closed bottom half of the door. There is a tall circular-shaped building in the background, with three concentrically-diminishing stories of windows. Mustard seed was ground to a powder with mortars and pestles. The powder was then mixed with vinegar, water, ver...
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Gender Male
Title of the image Schuhmacher
Translation (English) Cobbler/Shoemaker
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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