Beschrijving
The personification of history, with opened wings and a pyramid on the head, writing on a large book. With the left hand she is holding the mirror of truth. Two small putti on each side of the altar she is sitting at; some items on the pedestal on which the figures are, like some patents and documents; the pedestal is decorated with three elements. Frontispiece to the third volume of Jean le Clerc’s ‘Geschidenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden’ published between 1650 and 1679. Signed on the bottom: ‘W. Schellinkx invent. / A. Blooteling Sculp.’