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Showing posts with label Water carriers. Show all posts

23.5.15

Water carriers

Water was carried in different kinds of containers when houses had no piped water. Women were usually the water carriers.

Nas habitações sem água canalizada transportavam-na em diversos recipientes e para tal utilizavam principalmente mulheres.

Frank Duveneck (1848-1919)-‘water carrier, Venice’-oil on canvas-1884    Washington-Smithsonian American Art Museum

Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892)-‘the water carrier’-oil on canvas-1880    Private collection

Sergey Yvanovich Gribkov (1820-1893)-‘the water carrier’-oil on canvas-1873    Sumy-Regional Art Museum

Constant Troyon (1810-1865)-‘water carriers’-oil on canvas    Private collection

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903)-‘water carrier of the Ganges’-oil on canvas    Private collection