Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11887

    Portraits of tall humans

    Date
    1818
    Creator
    Jan Lucas van der Beek (1763 - 1818, Dutch) , Engraver
    After
    Izaak van Haarstert (1753 - 1834, Dutch) , Painter
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 206mm
    width (print): 127mm
    Subject
    Description
    Studies of three historical figures selected for their extreme height with a scale of measurement. Figure 4. Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever (1616-1633) of Edam, Netherlands. Figure 5. Daniel Mynheer Cajanus (1704 -1749) of Paltamo, Finland (then Sweden). Figure 6. Trijn van Hamburg, possibly Trijn Pieters (1590-1617) born near Hamburg and executed in Amsterdam, and whose body may have been used in anatomy lessons.

    Plate 2 from the monograph Natuur- en geschiedkundige Verhandeling over de Reuzen en Dwergen... (&) Aanmerkingen wegens sommige verscheidenheden in den mensch...by Wilhelmus Greve (J.C. Sepp & Zoon, Amsterdam, 1818).

    Inscribed above: ‘Pl.II’.

    Wilhelmus Greve (1762-1819) Dutch physician, practiced in Rotterdam, Noordwijk and Delft.
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