De letters van het alfabet, waarvan enige versierd zijn met ranken, Antoon Derkinderen, 1869 - 1925

Collection of the artist; his widow, Johanna Henriette Derkinderen-Besier (1865-1944), Amsterdam; by whom bequeathed, with 169 other objects, to the museum, 1944

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