Caption
Wounded men lying on a veranda, Blessés Turcs dans la citadelle de Nicopoli, French etching from 1880, L'eau-forte en 1880, print, Series number, 9, 30, collector's mark: 'AFE v S', watermark, printmaker: Auguste André Lançon, publisher: widow Alfred Cadart, Paris, 1880, paper, etching, drypoint, intaglio printmaking technique, height 205 mm x width 277 mm, patient, sick person, medical aid and nursing of the sick and wounded, Greece, A pen-and-ink scene of a wooden porch or covered platform showing four reclining figures in simple clothing and head coverings, two seated upright near the center and left and two lying down across the platform; a window with small panes appears behind the left figure, and a dark recessed doorway or interior space sits behind the central seated figure; a pot with a long handle rests on the floor near the left foreground beside folded cloth and a low cup, while a rug or mat lies under the figures and a log or bolster supports one of the reclining figures' legs; a simple roof with visible beams shelters the platform, a vertical post marks the right edge, and a stone wall and foliage run beneath and beside the platform.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B25_231
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