Title
Jacobus Buys, Freedom of the Press, last quarter of the eighteenth century
Creator
Buys, Jacobus (illustrator), Buys, Jacobus (graveur/engraver)
Year
[ca. 1895]
Type
prent, print
Measurements
14,6 x 9,5 cm.
Related term
boekencensuur
Period
18e eeuw
Classification
K: Maatschappelijke aspecten van boekproductie en -verspreiding
Content
Morality print by the painter/draughtsman Jacobus Buys on the freedom of the press. Shown is a woman with a lance and liberty hat, symbolising Freedom, who is obstructing a man with chains from chaining up a woman writing who has a number of books at her feet and two goose quills within hand's reach. The woman writing sits beneath the monument to Laurens Janszoon Coster; above it a stack of books also crowned with a liberty hat. In the background the St. Bavo in Haarlem can be seen.
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