Descriptive file
- Title:
- Washerwomen, the
- Document number:
- 274
- Author:
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Barker, Bligh
Crocker, Sydney
- Printer:
- Published by T. Mclean, 26 Haymarket, London
- Book/ Album / Dossier:
- Sketches from the basque provinces of Spain, illustrative of the character and costume of the basques and the scenery of the northern provinces
- Format date:
- 1839
- Topic date:
- 1839
- Physical description:
- 1 37 x 27 cm engraving on a 54 x 36 cm page; col
- Notes:
- Autographed. Description by the authors: This primitive mode of washing is common all over Spain. The clothes are brought down in baskets to the side of a running brook, in which they are rinsed and "belaboured" on stones placed for that purpose...This sketch was taken near the convent of San Francisco in the vicinity of San Sebastian...
- Subjects:
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Leisure-Clothing
Trades-Water carriers
Trades-Washerwomen
Natural landscape-Rivers
- Place names:
-
Donostia-S.Sebastian - Gipuzkoa
- Signature:
- ZM: P,4
- Location:
- Museo Zumalakarregi Museoa
2013 Department of Culture, Youth and Sport - Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
