EL AFILADOR : interesting postcard of 1900 representing a Spanish knife grinder.
The original is a black and white watercolor signed Z. Muñoz Lucena, Cordoba.
The man with the pipe carry on his back an equipment whose structure is lean given to how to carry it. The man stabilizes this epuipment from his left hand in the structure, his right hand holds a kind of cane, which must be linked to an element of the epuipment. It seems that there is nothing else to hang the work tool on the back. The man is leaning slightly forward to offset the weight of the craft.
Man’s face is not happy, it reflects the difficulty of a life not easy every day, it accentuated by the treatment of the work to watercolor : black, gray with some nuances. A beautiful testimony on afiladores in the late nineteenth century.
Inscriptions in the bottom left: 430 HAUSER Y MENET. — MADRID.
Right: BLANCO Y OF NEGRO Revista Ilustrada Madrid.
