Model for a design for an embroidered hand-screen showing a dog on a riverbank. Lithograph by van Houtman 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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