Description
Weyerman was the author and editor of a satirical weekly periodical of which two volumes are analysed here. They are a primary source on the customs and manners of urbanised Western Europe, especially Holland, in the early eighteenth century.
Lyckle de Vries (PhD Groningen University 1977) was Senior Lecturer of Art History of the Early Modern Period at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (1970-2000). He published extensively on Dutch art, art criticism, and art theory of the seventeenth century. His books include studies on Jan Steen (1977), Jan van der Heyden(1984), Johan van Gool (1990), Gerard de Lairesse (1998, 2011), and Jacob Campo Weyerman (Brill 2020).