Caption
Wall in Culemborg, print, A man and a woman stand by a wall, possibly a city wall, with battlement-like details and a wooden box., printmaker: Jan Weissenbruch, Culemborg (possibly), 1837 - 1880, paper, chine collé, etching, etching on chine collé, height 80 mm x width 47 mm, fence, wall, eel, city-walls, A tall vertical view of a narrow street bordered by tall, textured stone buildings with visible mortar lines and rectangular recesses, their facades shaded with dense crosshatching and vertical strokes; the sky above is filled with horizontal lines and a cluster of rounded, billowing clouds drawn with curving, overlapping pencil strokes; near the right edge two figures stand close together facing away, one wearing a rounded head covering and the other wearing a brimmed hat and holding a long thin object, both rendered in dark, closely hatched shading; doorways and window openings interrupt the building walls, and a small pitched-roof structure projects from one wall casting shadow, while the ground is marked by hatched shadows and linear perspective lines leading into the scene.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B41_263
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