A student sits in his student room and smokes a long pipe, thinking about life and death. He is looking at a globe standing in front of him on a pedestal. The walls are covered with bookcases. Beneath the picture a velum on which a long poem by W. Chess about the fleeting smoke and the finiteness of life., Smoking student in study room, print maker: François van Bleyswijck, (mentioned on object), François van Bleyswijck, (mentioned on object), publisher: Martinus de Bruyn, (mentioned on object), print maker: Leiden, publisher: Amsterdam, 1681 - 1746, paper, etching, h 314 mm × w 190 mm

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