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Cremation on a pyre
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Cremation on a pyre

anonymous · 1658 - 1660 · etching; paper

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

About this work

Cremation on a pyre. Part of the eight illustrations in: Johan Picardt, Korte beschryvinge van eenige vergetene en verborgene antiquiteten … in het antiquiteet-rijcke landschap Drenth, Tymon Houthaak, Amsterdam 1660.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printhistorieprentbody-burning, cremationNetherlandsDrentheprehistorie
Credit lineCrematie op een brandstapel. 1658 - 1660. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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