Examples of decorative chains made of human hair around an embroidered screen. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by D. Sluyter A. Lutz after an illustration by Cornelis Borsteegh 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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