Musicians playing at a Polterabend or eve-of-wedding party. Coloured lithograph.

Date:
1800-1899
Reference:
33926i
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Musicians playing at a Polterabend or eve-of-wedding party. Coloured lithograph. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A "Polterabend" is a party on the eve of a wedding, at which old crockery is smashed to bring good luck. Here no crockery is being smashed. The musicians play the lute, violin, flute and triangle

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1800-1899

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 12.5 x 8.6 cm

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Der Polterabend.

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Wellcome Collection 33926i

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