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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.

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Title
 Bookshop in Antwerp, c. 1550

Creator
 Leys, Hendrik (illustrator)

Year
 [ca 1880]

Type
 prent, print

Measurements
 afmetingen onbekend

Related term
 boekhandels, boekhandelaars

Period
 16e eeuw

Classification
 G: Boekhandel en uitgeverij

Content
 Romanticised representation of a street scene in Antwerp, with a bookshop against a medieval wall, perhaps of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk. In the 16th and 17th centuries bookshops were often found more or less in the open air against the wall of a church or public building. According to the painter Hendrik Leys (1815-1869), this is what a bookshop in the Southern Netherlands would have looked like in the mid-16th century.

@description
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

@reproduction
 Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Rijksprentenkabinet