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Gysbert Japicx, ca. 1650, as schoolmaster
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The Frisian poet Gysbert Japicx teaching in a schoolroom, around the year 1650. He sits diagonally at his lectern on a raised platform, looking at a boy and a girl who are approaching him with a notebook in hand. Other children in the classroom are watching. Part of the group of steel engravings after the paintings of the Historical Gallery of the Society Arti et Amicitiae.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineGysbert Japicx, ca. 1650, als schoolmeester. 1865 - 1870. Hendrik D. Jzn Sluyter. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
