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Artist
- Name:
- Robida, Albert
- Dates:
- 1848-1926
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Buildings & monuments, Humor
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- the Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Les contes drolatiques, vol. 1 (Robida)
- Author(s):
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Publisher:
- Paris: Librairie Illustrée — J. Tallandier, ca. 1900
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
In a medieval city, a man leans out of a window of a half-timbered house with oriel windows and throws a pitcher of cold water at a man on his doorstep.
The caption reads in the original French: Une bonne potée d’eau froide.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, black & white, cityscape, male, oriel
