Portrait of Dorothea Meyer, nee Kannengiesser, second wife of Jakob Meyer, burgermeister of Basel. In check and striped headscarf, pearl necklaces, embroidered and laced bodice. Mistakenly labeled with the name of his first wife, Anna Scheckenpurlin, Uxor Iacobi Meieri. Copperplate engraving by Bartholomaus Hubner after a portrait by Hans Holbein in Christian von Mechel's Oeuvre de Jean Holbein, Chez Guillaume Haas, Basel, 1790.

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