1860 · Moulding Shop · Werk 362 von 1.871

A foundry moulder ramming moulding sand around a wooden pattern in a floor pit, the man in a collarless shirt with rolled sleeves, a leather apron, heavy cloth trousers and hobnailed boots, a cloth cap, beside his knee a hand riddle that is a shallow round wooden hoop with a wire mesh bottom like a flat sieve, held in both hands to sift sand, a hand bellows for blowing loose sand, rows of clamped flasks waiting for the pour.