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The Shop of the Bookdealer Pieter Meijer Warnars on the Vijgendam in Amsterdam  1820

by Johannes Jelgerhuis

Amsterdam’s cultural elite met up in this book and print shop. Warnars, the owner, was a bookdealer, publisher and printer. These activities are reflected in the full bookcases, the hanging banner, the packages of printed matter and the printing press on the floor. The painter of this scene, Johannes Jelgerhuis, was also a noted actor. The pronounced perspective of the sho...
Size: 
48cm × 58cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Rijksmuseum