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Marriage balance: couple on a scale
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Marriage balance: couple on a scale

Jan van de Velde (II) · 1622 · letterpress printing; etching; paper

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

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A man and a woman with possessions and money on a scale, as a symbolic representation of weighing a marriage. Older men and women as onlookers. Book illustration from G.A. Bredero, Boertigh, amoreus, en aendachtigh groot lied-boeck, 1622. Page number 53 in the upper right.

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Credit lineHuwelijksbalans: paar op een weegschaal. 1622. Jan van de Velde (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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