The Bookshop and Lottery Agency of Jan de Groot in the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam

The Bookshop and Lottery Agency of Jan de Groot in the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam

SK-A-4026

• signature and date: ‘I.k Ouwater 10 17/79 25’
• inscription: ‘De Graaf [van Holland] / Dum teritur cos literatis, usui et literis prosit bonis [chronogram 1728] / Hugo Grotius / Hier werdt Gecolletet ... Ginnera ... loterij / 'T Hof van Hollandt’

A group of men fight to enter the lottery agency. It is the start of the sale of the Generaliteitsloterij (Generality Lottery), forerunner of the still existing Staatslotterij (State Lottery). Hotel guests at either side look on amused, including a Black man (left). His presence was not unusual. More Black people lived in Amsterdam in the late 18th century than in the previous century.

painter: Isaac Ouwater, Netherlands

1779

olieverf op doek

height 38.5 cm x width 33.5 cm

purchase 1960

Public domain

Inv.; …; collection Wilhelmus Josephus Rudolphus Dreesmann (1885-1954), Amsterdam, 1929;{Photo RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 22 March 1960 sqq., no. 61, fl. 17,000, to the dealer D.A. Hoogendijk, for the museum

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