Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831), He stands on a plinth on the right leg and with the left forward. The head is turned slightly to the left, he looks ahead in thought. With the right wrist he holds up the battered cloak under the chest, while holding a goose pen in his hand, in the hanging left hand he holds a book with the index finger between the pages. To the right of him is a three-sided taburet with a square top (sic.), On which two books lie next to an ink well, there is a curling sheet of paper under the books and a rug hanging on the back. The taburet is reminiscent of a Roman altar and shows a swan with a bending neck on each corner and a winch in relief on the side. Bilderdijk has short, curly hair and favorites. He wears a wide cloak with a wide lapel with a slightly raised collar from the back and with folded back sleeves, below a frak with large buttons and a cardigan, both with a raised collar. The shirt, of which a cuff can be seen for a short while at the mantle sleeve, has a jabot that is turned to the right and a high collar, around which a broad cravate is wound. He wears stockings and shoes with blunt noses and bows. Low plinth truncated at the corners with the signature on the right: JOH. TH. STRACKE'S BOSCH, Netherlands, Willem Bilderdijk, Jean Theodor Stracké, s Hertogenbosch, c. 1877, terracotta (clay material), h 75 cm × w 26.5 cm × d 23 cm × w 21.3 kg

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