» Goose-market in Cracow

Depicts crowds of people at the goose-market in Cracow, Poland, ca. 1860s. Hasidic Jew with payos and streimel in foreground is bending over to pick up a goose (from a group of geese) man (possibly a vendor) with long white beard leans against a wagon and smokes a pipe. Two children (one barefoot) walk in the right foreground. Several women in background carry baskets man dressed in suit and top hat also visible. Streets appear to be laden with straw two-story building in background has thatched roof. Artist signature (A. Schonn 1869) appears in bottom left corner of engraving.