
Cornelis Jacobsz DrebbelPaíses Baixos, 1572–1633Será possível contemplá-la?
Amesterdão, Países Baixos
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Personificatie van het Gevoel, een naakte vrouw met een slang om haar rechterbeen loopt in een landschap. Vijfde prent uit een serie met de vijf zintuigen gegraveerd door N.J. Clock en C.J. Drebbel.
Museu Estatal de Amesterdão
1587–1595 · Local de trabalho
Haarlem
1595
Marries Sophia Goltzius and settles in Alkmaar
He marries Sophia Jansdochter Goltzius, the younger sister of Hendrick Goltzius; the couple have at least six children, of whom four survive. Drebbel works at first as a painter, engraver and cartographer, but is in constant need of money because of his wife’s profligate lifestyle.
1598
Obtains a patent for a water-supply system and perpetual clockwork
Drebbel obtains a patent for a water-supply system and a sort of perpetual clockwork.