Dirk Klaasz. de Bakker ("the sleeping peasant of Stolwijk") asleep, attended by physicians unable to explain his disorder, surrounded by vignettes depicting Netherlandish cities and allegorical scenes. Engraving after B. van Kempen, and letterpress, 1706.

  • Kempen, B. van.
Date:
[1706]
Reference:
571235i
Part of:
Lust-hof van Momus.
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Description

The thatcher Dirk Klaasz de Bakker of Stolwijk slept from 29 June 1706 to 11 January 1707 (27 weeks) and after being woken up, slept again until 15 March 1707

Publication/Creation

Tot Dordrecht [i.e. Amsterdam?] : By Balthasar Goris [i.e. Carel Allard?], [1706]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with letterpress ; sheet 37.8 x 29.2 cm

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Lettering

Nader jok en ernst over de slapende boer te Stolwijk, (genaamd Dirk de Bakker, rietdekker) raakende de verwarde disputen der medicyns. Scribere quid prodest, si non curare valetis? Oh! medici, hunc morbum? Vos quoque somnus habet. .... ; B. van Kempen inv.

Creator/production credits

According to Muller, op. cit. p. 21, the prints in this series can be attributed to Carel Allard as both printmaker and publisher, working in Amsterdam

References note

F. Muller, De nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen, part 2, Amsterdam: Frederik Muller, 1870, p. 44, no. 3151.5

Reference

Wellcome Collection 571235i

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