A translucent table screen decorated with a painting of a village on fire. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by D. Sluyter after an illustration by Anthonie Jacobus van Wijngaerdt from Anna Barbara van Meerten’s Penelope, Or Maandwerk aan het Vrouwelijk Geslacht Toegewijd (Penelope, Monthly Magazine dedicated to the Female Sex), Beijerinck, Amsterdam, 1821. Van Meerten was an educator, writer and pioneer in women’s rights in Holland.

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