Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5337051
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
MR. CAREL WOUTER VISSCHER PENSIONARIS DER STAD AMSTERDAM.
Year
1780
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Publisher
Dimensions
37,7 x 27,2
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Portrait bust to the left inside oval by Carel Wouter Visscher (1734-1802). Visscher was a pensionary and mayor of the city of Amsterdam. He was one of the patriots' foremen and an opponent of the death penalty. Copper engraving by Johann Friedrich Bause (1738-1814), after Isaac Schmidt. Signed in print. Made in Leipzig in 1780. Source: Image Bank Amsterdam, 2015.

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