Caption
Incident between a Jew and a Keeshond, 1789, who, in order to get to His Master, dragged the Israelite through the Haarlemmer Vaart. 1789, print, Landscape with a carriage by the Haarlemmertrekvaart. A Keeshond drags a Jew, to whom the dog had been sold, through the water to the other side and back to his former master. The - fictional? - incident should probably be interpreted as a political analogy. On the sheet below the plate, a verse of 24 lines., printmaker, Northern Netherlands, paper, etching, engraving, letterpress printing, etching and engraving, text in letterpress, height 294 mm x width 182 mm, anti-semitism, Patriot Era (1780-1795), Haarlemmertrekvaart, Period, A wide landscape etching showing a flat riverside scene under a sky with fine horizontal hatch marks suggesting clouds; near the center a horse faces right and is harnessed to a two-wheeled cart carrying a seated person wearing a hat and coat who holds the reins; in the foreground a man stands at the water’s edge pulling on a struggling figure who is partially submerged in the water while another head and arm break the water surface nearby; along the distant bank there are groups of trees and a vertical steeple-like structure beside small buildings; grasses and cultivated field textures run across the near ground.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A96_144
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