Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Pen and ink drawing by J. Luyken.

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

A boy of nine years is scourged in the marketplace and more atrocities are commited to the followers of the House of Orange by the cavalry. Etching by J. Luyken.

The assassination of Henry IV, King of France, 1610: a tumultuous scene on the streets of Paris, in which the King's coach is stuck in traffic and the assassin fatally wounds the King in his coach. Etching by J. and C. Luyken.

William I, Prince of Orange is shot by the assassin Balthasar Gérard in the Prinsenhof at Delft in 1584. Etching by Jan Luyken after R. de Hooghe.

Saint Mary Magdalen kneeling at the feet of Jesus Christ. Etching by C. Grignion after J. Luyken.

The plague of frogs. Etching by J. Luyken.

8 unnumbered pages, 208 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : frontispiece, illustrations (part colour) ; (8vo)

Spiegel van het menselyk bedryf, vertoonende honderd verscheiden ambachten, konstig afgebeeld, en met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen verryke / door Jan en Kasper Luiken.

The plague of sores. Etching by J. Luyken.

1 unnumbered leaf, 115 leaves of plates : 115 illustrations, engr. t.page ; (oblong 4to)

Theatre des martyrs = Schau-Buhne der Martyrer : depuis la mort de J. Christ jusqu'à present, représenté en tres belles tailles-douces / par le celebre graveur Jean Luyken. Schau-Buhne der Martyrer, gezeichnet und in Kuppfer gestochen von Johann Luyken.

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Jan Luyken

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Images by Jan Luyken

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The plague of frogs. Etching by J. Luyken.

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

Spiegel van het menselyk bedryf, vertoonende honderd verscheiden ambachten, konstig afgebeeld, en met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen verryke / door Jan en Kasper Luiken.

The plague of sores. Etching by J. Luyken.

Theatre des martyrs = Schau-Buhne der Martyrer : depuis la mort de J. Christ jusqu'à present, représenté en tres belles tailles-douces / par le celebre graveur Jean Luyken. Schau-Buhne der Martyrer, gezeichnet und in Kuppfer gestochen von Johann Luyken.

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Jan Luyken

Images from the collections

Images by Jan Luyken

Works from the collections

The plague of frogs. Etching by J. Luyken.

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

Spiegel van het menselyk bedryf, vertoonende honderd verscheiden ambachten, konstig afgebeeld, en met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen verryke / door Jan en Kasper Luiken.

The plague of sores. Etching by J. Luyken.

Theatre des martyrs = Schau-Buhne der Martyrer : depuis la mort de J. Christ jusqu'à present, représenté en tres belles tailles-douces / par le celebre graveur Jean Luyken. Schau-Buhne der Martyrer, gezeichnet und in Kuppfer gestochen von Johann Luyken.

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