Johann Venuto, Czech
“Okay, I See Now That You and I Have Different Interpretations of ‘Doing a Little Gardening.’ I Think I Might Need Another Basket of Seeds,” 1820
Watercolor on wove paper
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Thanks for your great work. It's terrible how deteriorating GC is getting.
Info about this artist can be found here, perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Czechoslovakian Wikipedia page has more). The Austrian National Library (mentioned by the first link) currently has 409 of his works (Google translated), this being one of them.
/// The farmer, at rest from his labors,
gazed off ‘cross the fields at his neighbors.
And right there at his side
was his cross-dressing bride,
expelled here by bigots with sabers.
/// No matter her long flowing tresses,
the fact that she wouldn’t wear dresses,
as their Bibles decreed,
all their neighbors agreed
they must move to far distant addresses.
/// The couple decided to settle
in solitude, proving their mettle.
Although leaving town hurts,
the outskirts (without skirts)
is the place they could live in fine fettle.