A boy seated at a street corner at night selling boxes of matches from a tray on his lap. Wood engraving by R. Bong, 1890.

Date:
[1890]
Reference:
29636i
  • Pictures
  • Online

Available online

view A boy seated at a street corner at night selling boxes of matches from a tray on his lap. Wood engraving by R. Bong, 1890.

Public Domain Mark

You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. Read more about this licence.

Credit

A boy seated at a street corner at night selling boxes of matches from a tray on his lap. Wood engraving by R. Bong, 1890. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Selected images from this work

View 1 image

About this work

Description

Apparently a matchboy or "Streichholzverkäufer"selling matches. The source of illumination seems to be a candle in his tray, despite the risk of setting the matches alight

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1890] (Magdeburg)

Physical description

1 print : wood engraving ; image 23 x 16 cm

Lettering

At the street corner. R. Bong. X.A. Supplement to "The salon" December 1890

Reference

Wellcome Collection 29636i

Creator/production credits

"X.A." stands for Xylographische Anstalt

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link