# Library of the Leiden University

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46/library-of-the-leiden-university-r25d769624fdd57>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [SWANENBURG, Willem Isaacsz. van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Copperplate engraving and etching

## Commentary

Leiden was the first city to set up its university in Low Countries \(1575, also opening the Staten College, which offered accommodation to students from every part of Europe.

## Related artworks

- [Lot and His Daughters](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46/lot-and-his-daughters-r1dd581867ecee5>)
- [Portrait of Jacobus Arminius](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46/portrait-of-jacobus-arminius-r788cb35b049e6f>)
- [The Judgment of Paris](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46/the-judgment-of-paris-r510b127cd64c80>)
- [The Land Yacht](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46/the-land-yacht-rd4a7d8d5b7ccbf>)
- [The Supper at Emmaus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46/the-supper-at-emmaus-r8e65aab2c08b59>)
- [Zacchaeus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/swanenburg-willem-isaacsz-van-r76d477583f0c46/zacchaeus-r7fb331e52b2704>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)