Caption
Three men by a gas lantern, cartoon, print, A gas lantern stands by a building with three men in long coats. The man on the left holds a stick and uses it to support the man who has climbed into the gas lantern. On the other side, a man sits on a stool. English texts are displayed on several pages of paper in his hands or on the lantern. A face is depicted in the waxing moon. Below the image is a two-line English text from the Bible, freely adapted from Matthew 2., printmaker: Frederik Hendrik Weissenbruch, The Hague, 1843 - 1887, paper, etching, height 163 mm x width 135 mm, cushion, caricatures (human types), civic architecture, edifices, dwellings, street lighting, waxing moon represented as face, gas-lamp, A sketch in pen shows three robed figures wearing pointed head coverings gathered around a tall street lamp; one figure is perched on the lamp reaching toward its top while another stands on the ground steadying the lamp post and the third leans forward reading from a sheet attached to the post; the scene includes a crescent moon in a hatched sky, rough outlines of buildings and windows in the background, visible folds and stripes on the figures' garments, textured shading on the ground, and scattered speckling on the paper.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B41_256
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40.7Mb (7.9Mb) / 10.9in x 14.5in / 3278 x 4337 (300dpi)