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Woman Carrying a Bucket
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A woman carries a wooden bucket in which she draws the first water of the new year. Her bucket is decorated with New Year attributes, such as fern leaves and a twisted rope. Next to her, a boy walks with a white rat on his hand, referring to the year of the rat, 1817. With six poems.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineWoman Carrying a Bucket. 1804. Ryûryûkyo Shinsai. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.