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Bookshop in Antwerp, c. 1550

Leys, Hendrik (illustrator)
year: [ca 1880]

type: prent
print
detail: ja
dimensions: afmetingen onbekend
related terms: boekhandels boekhandelaars
period: 16e eeuw
classification:
G: Boekhandel en uitgeverij

contents: Romanticised representation of a street scene in Antwerp, with a bookshop against a medieval wall, perhaps of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk. In the 16th and 17th centuries bookshops were often found more or less in the open air against the wall of a church or public building. According to the painter Hendrik Leys (1815-1869), this is what a bookshop in the Southern Netherlands would have looked like in the mid-16th century.

origineel:
©description: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
©reproduction: Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Rijksprentenkabinet




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