Identification title(s): allegorical scene with dutch virgin, freedom, time and piety. Title page for: s. N. , handboek der vaderlandsche historie, s. A. Object type: print title page object number: rp-p-1992-196. Catalog reference: fmh 4290-a. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2228collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2760. Description: the dutch virgin sitting on a throne with a coat of arms with seven arrows, accompanied by freedom, father time and piety. On the right, hercules, as the personification of courage, puts the personifications of compulsion and violence in chains. On the left the explanation of the title page. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: simon fokke (mentioned on object), after own design by: simon fokke (mentioned on object), publisher: arend fokke simonsz. (mentioned on item). Place of manufacture: amsterdam. Dating: in or after 1788. Physical features: left etching in letterpress, right etching. Material: paper technique: etching / letterpress. Dimensions: plate edge: h 133 mm × w 82 mmtop: h 165 mm × w 198 mmexplanation title page for: title page for: s. N. Handbook of national history. Amsterdam: fokke simonsz, arend, [after 1788]. Variant used as title page for: used as an illustration in: vreugdezang, on the second centenary of the relief of the city of leyden. Amsterdam: arend fokke simonsz, 1774. Here the woman symbolizes the city of leiden instead of the netherlands. See rp-p-ob-84. 892. Subject: what: personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc. Freedom, liberty; 'libertà' (ripa). Father time, man with wings and scythedevotion, piety; 'divotione' (ripa). Where: netherlands. Credit line: purchase from the f. G. Waller fund. Acquisition: purchase 1992. Date: in of na 1788.
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