Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1945-09-29
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004997

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed [on adhered label]: BRUSSELS’ BEST-DRESSED CITIZEN – “THE MANNEKEN”. / The famous “Manneken of Brussels”. Fashioned in 1619 by the sculptor / Jerome Duquesnoy the Elder as a fountain for the Rue de l’Eture, / has since acquired about 100 uniforms, mostly to mark historic / occasions. The Manneken usually prefers to go naked, but his / wardrobe is magnificently housed in the “Maison du Roi”, and he / has a valet three times his own size to keep the uniform of a Carabinier, with / cock’s feathers in hat and a pair of white gloves. / VP 29 Sept. ’45 PN (8); stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; COPYRIGHT / PLANET NEWS LTD. / 3 JOHNSON’S COURT LONDON, E.G.4. / [illeg.].

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / BRUSSELS
Retouching: N