Collection Technique: Etching

Inside a mill, three men are working behind the mill wheel, while four others gather around a table with drinking glasses. Two stand and two sit as they drink wine. At the center, a man shown en face points toward a glass that has fallen onto a woman positioned three‑quarters to the right; she turns her head back with a smile as he rests his left hand on her shoulder. The woman holds an infant in her left arm and steadies another small child with her right hand, the child standing before a bucket from which its contents have just been spilled.

A scene set inside the temple, before an open curtain, with a crowd of people visible in the background. At the center sits Joseph, offering the naked Christ Child to the priest’s knife. Behind him waits another father with his own infant. To the right, shown in profile, the Virgin Mary prays. To the left stands a man in profile holding a candle. In the foreground, positioned between Joseph and the viewer, the priest holds a basin as part of the ritual.

Inside a church, with a wooden bench resting against the wall beneath a painting, an elderly woman wearing a coat and a woolen hat, with a stern expression, is shown in profile facing left. She kneels in prayer, holding a prayer book. Behind her, seated on the bench in a three‑quarter view, with her head leaning on the woman’s shoulder, is a girl wrapped in a cloak, with branches placed beside her on the bench.