Aserrador; madera; aserrador de madera; trabajo; USA; Estados Unidos; afroamericano; Weir; pintura; siglo XIX; Metropolitan Museum - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 14:59:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Aserrador; madera; aserrador de madera; trabajo; USA; Estados Unidos; afroamericano; Weir; pintura; siglo XIX; Metropolitan Museum - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The wood sawyer https://historylab.es/the-wood-sawyer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-wood-sawyer Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:28 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-aserrador-de-madera/ African American character chopping firewood at the entrance of an urban outbuilding

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]]> The wood sawyer is a typology of work known before the Civil War in the United States, and was painted by Charles Weir. The subject’s clothing and proximity to a hotel imply different responsibilities as a porter or coachman. Other details place the scene in the not fully urbanised Lower Manhattan. The pigs root in the middle distance and the white steeple suggests St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery. The open manhole and lid represent access to the pipes of the Croton Aqueduct, which carried fresh water to the city’s reservoirs from the Croton River.

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