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Artist
- Name:
- Steinlen, Théophile-Alexandre
- Dates:
- 1859-1923
- Country:
- France, Switzerland
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Chansons rouges
- Author(s):
- Boukay, Maurice (Charles-Maurice Couyba)
- Publisher:
- Paris: Ernest Flammarion, n.d. [1896?]
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
An itinerant grinder is leaning over a grindstone and meticulously sharpens a blade as a guillotine stands on a platform in the background, with a heap of severed heads at its foot.
The caption reads in the original French: La chanson du rémouleur.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th century, black & white, death, eerie, male, song, working
