Caption
Asch-Karmans Kermis-Wensch, 1843, Fair print of the Amsterdam ash cart men for the year 1843, print, fair print, Fair print on behalf of the ash cart men (cart man or garbage collector) in Amsterdam for the year 1843. View of a street in Amsterdam with a man standing with an ash bucket by the cart while another man collects money door-to-door. At the bottom, a poem in two columns. On behalf of JD Farjon, the ash cart man of district no. 19., printmaker, printer (person), Amsterdam, paper, letterpress printing, woodcut, text in letterpress with image in woodcut, height 341 mm x width 210 mm, garbage collection, public road - II - ideal city, Period, A black and white illustration of a street scene with tall narrow buildings featuring stepped and curved gables lining the background, a horse harnessed to a covered cart with large spoked wheels standing in the foreground, a person holding the horse's reins and carrying pails, another person wearing a tall hat reaching toward a woman leaning from a building doorway, visible brickwork and multi-paned windows on the nearest buildings, and wooden planked street beneath them.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A92_191
License type
Rights managed
Available size
52.5Mb (6.4Mb) / 16.4in x 12.4in / 4933 x 3723 (300dpi)