Caption
Metz 8 octobre 1870, Des soldats de cavalerie isolés bivouaquent place Saint Simon au Fort Moselle, Group of soldiers in a camp, L'eau-forte en 1875, French etchings from 1875, print, Series number, 15, 40, collector's mark: 'AFE v S', printmaker: Emile Boilvin, publisher: Alfred Cadart, Paris, 1875, paper, etching, drypoint, intaglio printmaking technique, height 242 mm x width 319 mm, shelter, military service, Metz, A sepia-toned scene shows a tiled-roof shelter supported by wooden posts with a chimney rising from the roof ridge, a group of people wearing cloaks and hats gathered under and in front of the shelter, some standing and some seated near cooking pots over small fires, a man crouched by a pot and another bending nearby, a horse standing to the right with its head lowered, various figures in the background near carts and distant buildings, and a sky filled with textured, sweeping cloud strokes.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B25_170
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