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Wedding print
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Wedding print

Dirk Sluyter · 1800 - 1810 · stippelets; hand coloring; paper; watercolor (paint)

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

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Wedding print with an allegorical representation: the groom as father standing beside Faith, the bride as mother sitting on the ground nursing her child next to the lion and the lamb. Father Time sits at the wedding altar with a blank scroll. With other symbolic elements and personifications. Possibly intended as a wish letter to be presented by a child to his parents. Subject categories within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: The Beginning, Middle, and End of Man. Wedding and Marriage.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printwensbriefFaith, 'Fides'nursing, suckling'Vanitas' symbols(civil) marriage ceremonies
Credit lineBruiloftsprent. 1800 - 1810. Dirk Sluyter. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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