Caption

Promenade in a marsh, The Polichinel family, Stilt walker and travelers stranded in a swamp, Small collection of prints, The small print shop, print, album page, Page with two separate illustrations. This print is part of an album., printmaker: Eugène Hippolyte Forest, printmaker: Frédéric Bouchot, publisher: Aubert & Cie., Paris, 1834, paper, wood engraving, height 141 mm x width 232 mm, swamps and polders, 'en route', traveller under way (accident, collision, crash, traffic and transport), (walking on) stilts, A black and white ink illustration divided into two scenes shows on the left a tall figure on stilts wearing a large hat and carrying a long staff, with smaller figures also on stilts and buildings faintly sketched behind them; on the right a swamp scene depicts a woman in a dress and bonnet seated in shallow water near a broken cart and a small horse, and a man wearing a top hat and coat sitting with one leg bent, surrounded by reeds and water, with simple line shading throughout.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26B16_117

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47.9Mb (10.8Mb) / 17.0in x 10.9in / 5098 x 3281 (300dpi)

Keywords

Promenade marsh Polichinel family Stilt walker travelers stranded swamp Small collection prints small print shop album page Page two separate illustrations part album printmaker Eugène Hippolyte Forest Frédéric Bouchot publisher Aubert & Cie Paris 1834 paper wood engraving height 141 mm x width 232 mm swamps polders en route traveller under way accident collision crash traffic transport walking on stilts black white ink illustration divided two scenes left tall figure stilts wearing large hat carrying long staff smaller figures also buildings faintly sketched them right swamp scene depicts woman dress bonnet seated shallow water near broken cart small horse man wearing top hat coat sitting leg bent surrounded reeds water simple line shading