Caption
New Year's Greeting, by Your Honor, Servants of the City Trumpeters, 1850, New Year's greeting of the city trumpeters of Haarlem for the year 1850, print, New Year's greeting, New Year's greeting of the Haarlem tower watchmen (city trumpeters) for the year 1850. View of the Grote Markt in Haarlem with a tower watchman on the tower of St. Bavo. With a verse in two columns., printmaker, Haarlem, paper, letterpress printing, woodcut, woodcut with text in letterpress, height 427 mm x width 344 mm, street, church (exterior), tower sentry, St. Bavo Church (Haarlem), Period, A detailed ink drawing of a large Gothic cathedral with tall pointed towers, arched windows, and steeply pitched roofs; a central ornate spire rises above the building, and decorative circular openings appear on one façade; smaller attached buildings and rooflines extend from the main structure, with a fenced area and a statue in front; people in period clothing walk and gather in the open square before the cathedral, and a few small carts and market stalls line the building; the sky above shows stylized clouds and horizontal shading, and the whole scene is framed by a thin rectangular border.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A92_204
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41.9Mb (10.0Mb) / 13.5in x 12.1in / 4040 x 3624 (300dpi)