Occupation title source   Kupfferschmidt
Occupation title (english) Copper Smith
Hiscode 87330
Description of Image Two men dressed in mourning attire are walking and talking together in a square, while behind them in the background pallbearers carry a draped coffin. A church steeple is seen in the background at the left. The men wear especially tall, broad-brimmed hats trimmed with long mourning scarves and bows. The tails of the scarves stretch down behind them to the middle of their backs. They wear long cloaks, fastened with many buttons, over their clothing; each has a square-shaped collar. The mourner to the right carries a paper in his hand with the words "ter begrafen is" written on it. The mourner ...
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Gender Male
Title of the image Kupfferschmidt
Translation (English) Copper Smith
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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