In a garden in front of a classical portal, a man sits next to his young wife amidst their six sons. Below the scene, on an attached sheet, a Dutch poem in three stanzas and a Dutch poem in two times two lines, naming the relationship between the woman and the boys/men in the scene in the form of a riddle., The Complicated Marriage, print maker: Romeyn de Hooghe, (mentioned on object), Samuel Sylvius, (mentioned on object), P. van Torenburg, (mentioned on object), Haarlem, 1698, paper, etching, letterpress printing, h 260 mm × w 345 mm

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