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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.
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Title

 Jacobus Buys, Freedom of the Press, last quarter of the eighteenth century


Creator

 Buys, Jacobus (illustrator), Buys, Jacobus (graveur/engraver)


Year

 [ca. 1895]


Type

 prent, print


Measurements

 14,6 x 9,5 cm.


Related term

 boekencensuur


Period

 18e eeuw


Classification

 K: Maatschappelijke aspecten van boekproductie en -verspreiding


Content

 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.


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 Amsterdam Bibliotheek KVB Universiteitsbibliotheek UVA


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 Amsterdam Bibliotheek KVB Universiteitsbibliotheek UVA