amagertorv

Updated: May 21, 2025

We had arrived at the Amagertorv the market-place and I recollect getting a sudden impression of the quaint stalls and the picturesque Amager-women one with a preternaturally hideous face and the frozen canal in the middle, with the ice-bound fruit-boats from the islands, and the red sails of the Norwegian boats, and the Egyptian architecture of Thorwaldsen's Museum in the background, making up my mind to paint it all, in the brief instant before I added in my most convincing tones, 'The Kronprinds will be there.

Israel Zangwill - The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes