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Luisterryke Vrouwen Schaatschen Rydparty

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Date

c.1805

Artist

Print after Aldert Jacob van der Poort (1771-1807)

Collection

Image Link

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3636828

Additional Makers

Print maker - Jacob Ernst Marcus; Publisher - P.H. Meyer & Comp.

Description

A winter scene; a big crowd watches an ice-skating competition between two women held at the city canal in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, a windmill in the background; after Albert Jacob van der Poort. Hand-coloured etching.

Inscription

Lettered with series title below the image, followed by "Gehouden te Leeuwarden op den 1sten en 2den February des Jaars 1805. / Opgedraagen aan de In en Opgezetenen van Vriesland."

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Image Credit

image © Trustees of the British Museum

Location

Friesland, Netherlands

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