The 50 plates / Plate 26 of 50
Plate 26 of 50
The Market Crier
Der Marktschreier
Andries Both
Not yet located
The drawing
A bustling town-square scene in which a flamboyantly dressed street vendor stands above a crowd, addressing townspeople gathered around his stall. Children, adults, and a small dog crowd the foreground, with old buildings and a church tower framing the market.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Andries Both
- Title as printed
- Der Marktschreier
- Title in English
- The Market Crier
- Medium and size
- Pen with washes, 18.5 × 27 cm
- Inscription
- Unsigned
- Collection in 1922
- Limburger collection, Leipzig (formerly von Liphart)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Andries Both, as attributed by Becker. No independent modern attribution to this exact drawing has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 26.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.