A fortune-teller performing among a group of women. Wood engraving after Nicolas Gysis.

  • Gysis, Nicolas, 1842-1901.
Date:
1889
Reference:
39496i
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A fortune-teller performing among a group of women. Wood engraving after Nicolas Gysis. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The setting is the main room of a house, probably in Greece. Nine women are around the fortune teller, who is using cards to predict something for a young woman. All of them are smiling. In the background, two men are sitting. One of them is looking at the scene. On a stool in the left foreground is the fortune-teller's knapsack, bell, and waterflask, indicating his itinerant status

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1889.

Physical description

1 print : wood engraving ; sheet 40.7 x 57.4 cm

Lettering

The fortune teller. Special supplement to The illustrated sporting and dramatic news, June 13, 1889

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39496i

Creator/production credits

Bears printed signature of artist "N. Gysis" on structure to right. Gysis was born in Tinos, Cyclades islands, and died in Munich

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