Sujet

Sketches in Vienna: pedlars and laundress, 1873. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sketches in Vienna: pedlars and laundress, 1873. 'The dress, manners, and employments of different classes of the people in the lively capital of the Austrian empire afford much entertainment to an observant foreign visitor...There is great diversity of figures, costumes, and dialects among the various nationalities...and the poorer inhabitants of this large city are in the habit of practising a multitude of trades or shifts to get their precarious living. An industrious woman...who has worked hard to finish her job of washing, ironing, or mangling linen, and who goes through the street laden with a basket of clean clothes, may be accosted by a mob of travelling pedlars from the Danubian provinces, clad in half-Asiatic attire, and speaking a language scarcely known in Western Europe. They will tempt her feminine taste for personal finery with a display of cheap brooches and earrings, or they may endeavour to extract from her maternal fondness the price of a toy for one of her children, if she does not care to buy a new mock-meerschaum, or other fancy tobacco-pipe, for the evening solace of her worthy husband. This dilemma of the female Viennese workwoman is portrayed in one of our Artist's street sketches'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A12_372

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

27,0Mo (2,5Mo) / 31,4cm x 21,5cm / 3710 x 2540 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people male job man men arts country play playing toy toys washing Austria art trade guy costume occupation basket laundry clothes British dress traditional costume Austrian location century customer Britain profession skirt newspapers press clothing print concept APPAREL B&W street scene apron engraved engraving street vendor street seller 19th century black & white black and white B W National Costume nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News itinerant laundress national dress peddler pedlar street trader traditional dress washerwoman wood engraving ILN laundrywoman street newspaper Unknown Washerwomen laundresses 19th-century peddlers pedlars clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News