A PAIR OF DUTCH ENGRAVINGS DEPICTING THE FREEDOM FESTIVITIES IN CARVED GILTWOOD FRAMES

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THE PROPERTY OF AN ESTATE (LOTS 254-297)

A PAIR OF DUTCH ENGRAVINGS DEPICTING THE FREEDOM FESTIVITIES IN CARVED GILTWOOD FRAMES

AFTER J. KUYPER, BY REINIER VINKELES AND DANIEL VRIJDAG, CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF DUTCH ENGRAVINGS DEPICTING THE FREEDOM FESTIVITIES IN CARVED GILTWOOD FRAMES
AFTER J. KUYPER, BY REINIER VINKELES AND DANIEL VRIJDAG, CIRCA 1800
Each depicting Dutch patriots and French revolutionaries dancing around a tree of liberty vrijheidsboom, inscribed to the lower edges; framed and glazed, unexamined out of frame, the back of each inscribed in ink, offred a la legation par mr.Smit van Geldter, MAI 1935
41 cm. high x 51 cm. wide plate (2)

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Lot Essay

Reinier Vinkeles (Amsterdam, 1741-1816), J. Kuyper (Den Haag, 1765- Amsterdam 1822). The freedom festivities found place on 4 March 1795 a tree of liberty was placed on the Dam and the Amsterdam Revolutionary Comite dismissed the city council and proclaimed the new political ideologie of Liberté, Fraternité and Egalité.

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