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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

 Bookshop in Antwerp, c. 1550


Creator

 Leys, Hendrik (illustrator)


Year

 [ca 1880]


Type

 prent, print


Measurements

 afmetingen onbekend


Related term

 boekhandels, boekhandelaars


Period

 16e eeuw


Classification

 G: Boekhandel en uitgeverij


Content

 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.


@description

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


@reproduction

 Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Rijksprentenkabinet