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Title page for funeral poems with mourning figures
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Ornamental title page for tragic and funeral poems. In the middle above a skull. On the left a man with a extinguished torch, on the right a mourning woman with a book in her hand. The ornament is crowned with a coffin. At the bottom winged hourglasses and bones.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineTitelpagina voor grafgedichten met treurende figuren. 1706 - 1746. François van Bleyswijck. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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