Allegorical monument to Laurens Jansz. Coster. Standing woman with extinguished torch hangs a laurel wreath at Coster's tomb. Near the tomb sits a child with printed books. In the caption a two-line verse. At the celebration in 1823 of the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing by Coster in 1423., Allegorical Tomb for Laurens Jansz. Coster, 1823, print maker: Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, Netherlands, 1823, paper, h 343 mm × w 237 mm

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