Conjuring up parallels with Ford Madox Brown’s Work (1852–63) and Adolph Menzel’s Piazza d’Erbe in Verona (1884), this panorama by Christian Sell (1831–83) portrays divisions of class, occupation, and generation while bringing together the worlds of labor and everyday life. A strong compositional diagonal draws the viewer’s eye towards the upper-middle-class overseers who stand stiffly near the center of the image.