Jacobus Buys, Freedom of the Press, last quarter of the eighteenth century
Buys, Jacobus (illustrator)
Buys, Jacobus (graveur/engraver)
year: [ca. 1895]
type: prent
detail: nee
dimensions: 14,6 x 9,5 cm.
related terms: boekencensuur
period: 18e eeuw
classification:
K: Maatschappelijke aspecten van boekproductie en -verspreiding
contents: Morality print by the painter/draughtsman Jacobus Buys on the freedom of the press. Shown is a woman with a lance and liberty hat, symbolising Freedom, who is obstructing a man with chains from chaining up a woman writing who has a number of books at her feet and two goose quills within hand's reach. The woman writing sits beneath the monument to Laurens Janszoon Coster; above it a stack of books also crowned with a liberty hat. In the background the St. Bavo in Haarlem can be seen.
origineel:
©description: Amsterdam Bibliotheek KVB Universiteitsbibliotheek UVA
©reproduction: Amsterdam Bibliotheek KVB Universiteitsbibliotheek UVA
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