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Watchhouse in Japan; Magicians and acrobats
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
View in two parts. Left: a Japanese guardhouse with a lantern. In the foreground, the guards play chess. Two men smoke a water pipe. Behind it a tea set. In the distance training is taking place. On the right view, magicians and acrobats. A basket is pierced. A man pulls a rope through his nose and his eye. Another man pulls a chain through his leg, a third sticks a pin through his arm. The head of a fourth is on fire. Also shown are balance artists, such as tightrope walkers. In the middle ground, mice and a horse are being trained. With a legend in Dutch and French. The print is part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineWachthuis in Japan; Goochelaars en acrobaten. 1682 - 1733. Romeyn de Hooghe. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.