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The Bookshop and Lottery Agency of Jan de Groot in the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam
Also titled De boekhandel en het loterijkantoor van Jan de Groot in de Kalverstraat in Amsterdam
Isaac Ouwater (Amsterdam, 1748–1793)
1779
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 38.5 cm x width 33.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
A group of men fight to enter the lottery agency. It is the start of the sale of the Generaliteitsloterij (Generality Lottery), forerunner of the still existing Staatslotterij (State Lottery). Hotel guests at either side look on amused, including a Black man (left). His presence was not unusual. More Black people lived in Amsterdam in the late 18th century than in the previous century.
