Identification title(s): sleeping polder boy. Object type: print object number: rp-p-1935-1283. A. Catalog reference: rijksmuseum collection-1(2). Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2166collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2760annotation, recto, handwritten: 'wednesday friday: the hague'. Description: a man in work clothes and hat, sitting and sleeping on a wooden bench. Top left a branch with leaves, bottom right a drinking bottle. In the background on the right is a settlement with a church tower. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: johannes josephus aarts. Dating: 1881 - 1934. Physical characteristics: engraving and plate tone with corrections in pencil and black chalk. Material: paper pencil chalk technique: engraving (printing process) / plate tone. Dimensions: plate edge: h 255 mm × w 227 mm. Subject: what: working class, laborers sleeping; unconsciousness - bb - out of doors. Acquisition: purchase 1935. Date: between 1881 and 1934.
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