Occupation title source   Schlosser
Occupation title (english) Locksmith
Hiscode 83930
Description of Image A market woman sits on the handles of her wheelbarrow with her back to the viewer. The supporting straps ordinarily used to lift the wheelbarrow crisscross her back. She talks to a female customer buying nuts. The customer, wearing a long shawl over her shoulders, has lifted up the ends of her apron in both hands. The peddler points her left index finger towards the customer's apron, which is filled with nuts. A can used to measure out the nuts rests on the wheelbarrow. A large municipal building and other buildings can be seen in the background. Nuts were popular in the Netherlands, eaten...
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Gender Male
Title of the image Schlosser
Translation (English) Locksmith
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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