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LastDodo number
5157541
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
De Edele Groot Agtbaare Heer, EGIDIUS VAN DEN BEMPDEN
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Dimensions
35,3 x 22,2
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Bust of Aegidius van den Bempden (1667-1737) in an oval medallion with his coat of arms at the top. Around the portrait in the oval putti on the left and a dog on the right. The portrait rests on a plinth, on which his name and details are written in five lines in Dutch and below eight lines in Dutch by Joannes van Braam. Copper engraving by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780), after a drawing by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). Published in Leiden and Amsterdam by Reinier Boitet and Gerard onder de Linden, c. 1730. Van den Bempden was mayor of Amsterdam. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2014.

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