Five Professions

Five glasses with depictions of professions in a wooden frame. The profession depicted is also always mentioned on the glass. Farthest to the left: 'schilder' (painter), a man painting a woman's portrait. To the right of that: 'wever' (weaver), a man seated behind a loom. In the middle: 'schipper' (skipper), a man at the helm of a small sailboat. To the right of that: 'lijndraijer' (rope-maker), a rope-maker at work on a rope walk. Farthest to the right: 'kuijper' (cooper), a cooper applying hoops to a barrel with a cooper's hammer. The images seem partly to go back to the prints Menselyk Bedryf by Jan and Caspar Luyken, but are not directly copied or traced from them. The depicted professions and the composition of the images deviate too much from the original prints.