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A mourners' crier (announcer) informs a housewife of someone's death at the doorway of a wine shop. On the hanging sign: Vry Wyn. Part of the series of reduced copies from 1806 after the plates of Dutch national costumes from the years 1803-1807. Subject categories within the Atlas of Customs and Manners: The Beginning, Middle and End of Man. Funerals, mourners' criers, gravediggers, etc.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineAanspreker. 1806. Ludwig Gottlieb Portman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
