Description mr. Egbert de vry temminck
portrait of egbert de vrij temminck (1700-1785), mayor of amsterdam in the years 1749-1784. Print originally intended for: jan wagenaar, vaderlandsche historie, containing the histories of the now united netherlands, in particular that of holland [. . . ], 21 parts. Amsterdam, isaak tirion, 1749-59. Below the portrait a poem in pen: "who lives like a citizen, who thinks like a statesman, who speaks like a king, and acts like a citizen, father, who cares about the true welfare of city and country, and who still suffers for no love, who ever wounds his conscience, it is temminck who you see, to whom you must give glory, that he lives for freedom and for its salvation. Zou sneeven". Technique: engraving. Document type: print
manufacturer: houbraken, j. Collection: amsterdam city archives collection: drawings and prints
dating: 1749 to 1759
inventories: http://archief. Amsterdam/archief/10097/2404
image file: anwj00588000001. Date: 1749 t/m 1759.
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