Book illustration ball donation Concordia Ball 1905

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Dutch genre scene. Seated full-length portraits of a young fisherman (shown in side back view and wearing a fisherman's hat) in animated conversation with a girl, embracing her upper right arm. The girl, in front view, her head turned sideways, facing the fisherman, wearing a white hood, holding a needlework in her hands. Interior indicated only by a picture on the wall and by light reflection from a window.

JQAW# G_1905_050
B/W print on paper ca. 5 x 4 cm
Signature: Unsigned.
Original lost.
Illustration after an original of the ball donation, archive Concordia Press Club Vienna.

The original drawing (probably charcoal on paper, lost) served as a model for a book illustration of a booklet "Schiller Almanac" given as a ball donation of the Concordia Ball 1905. Book page (unnumbered) titled at upper right "John Quincy Adams." Below, a verse: "Ah, may she eternally blossom, the fair time of first love!".

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Original drawing lost. Illustration based on an original of the ball donation from the archives of the Concordia Press Club Vienna.