Description the guillotine in front of the waaggebouw
the nieuwmarkt seen from the south with the waag in the middle with the scaffold and the guillotine. In the background spectators are kept at a distance by the guard on horseback. This is the first and only time that the death penalty was carried out by guillotine in amsterdam. The executed were hester rebekka nepping, adriana van rijswijk and gerrit verkerk. Document type: drawing
manufacturer: lamberts, gerrit
collection: van eeghen collection: drawings
dating: 1812
geographical name: nieuwmarkt
inventories: http://archief. Amsterdam/archief/10055/383
image file: 010055000250. Date: 1812.
