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Walking stick with a straight handle
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Walking stick with a straight handle

anonymous · c. 1795 - c. 1805 · cutting; wood (plant material)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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From 1795 the young and fashionable Incroyables in Paris used a gnarled branch as a walking stick. They nicknamed it the arbre de la liberté: tree of liberty, in reference to the French Revolution (1789). The Netherlands was rechristened the Batavian Republic on 19 January 1795. A liberty tree was raised in Amsterdam on the 'Plein der Revolutie', Dam Square. Whether the stick was dubbed the same in the Netherlands is unknown.

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walking stick
Credit lineWalking stick with a straight handle. c. 1795 - c. 1805. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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