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Occupations and Professions at Court
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Sheet with 32 small representations of occupations or professions at court (music-making, cooking, writing, serving, entertaining), and 16 equally large 'boxes' with 2 empty scrolls. These 48 images and boxes with scrolls are distributed over the plate in 6 rows of 8 as follows. On the left half of the sheet there are two rows of 8 representations of occupations or professions; on the images on the left they are performed by men, on the right by women. In between stands a row of 8 boxes with scrolls. On the right half of the sheet images and boxes with scrolls are distributed in the same way.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineBezigheden en beroepen aan het hof. 1655 - 1708. Romeyn de Hooghe. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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