Farmer Fair, about 1600 Farmer Fair, approximately 1600 Object Type : picture Item number: : FMH 1118 MNew Hollstein Dutch 173-4 (4) Description: Village scene with a peasant carnival in honor of Saint Sebastian, ca . 1600 left the inn with a banner Where: at St. Sebastian. The inn and the village square entertain the villagers with food, drink, flask game, goose stabbing and dancing. Here also the excesses: drunkenness, vomiting, steal and fight. In the foreground on the right gives a man a beggar alms, left sells kramer stick horses and other toys in the back
Farmer Fair, about 1600 Farmer Fair, approximately 1600 Object Type : picture Item number: : FMH 1118 MNew Hollstein Dutch 173-4 (4) Description: Village scene with a peasant carnival in honor of Saint Sebastian, ca . 1600 left the inn with a banner Where: at St. Sebastian. The inn and the village square entertain the villagers with food, drink, flask game, goose stabbing and dancing. Here also the excesses: drunkenness, vomiting, steal and fight. In the foreground on the right gives a man a beggar alms, left sells kramer stick horses and other toys in the background of market stalls and a procession with a statue of Mary in the village church. The signature two verses of four lines in French and Dutch, above a presentation inscription in Latijn. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous design by Pieter van der Borcht (I) (listed building) publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher (II) (listed building) Place manufacture: printmaker: Netherlands Publisher: Amsterdam Date: 1600 - 1649 Physical features: etching material: paper Technique: etching Dimensions: plate edge: H 224 mm × W 305 mm Subject (annual) fair, trade fairfarmersfightingfestivities (+ eating and drinking ~ festive activities) drunkenness'kolf (ballgame) hobby-horse when: 1590 - 1610
Size: 1787px × 1398px
Photo credit: © Art World / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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