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Statue Van der Werff, Van der Werff park, Leiden
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near Leiden, Zuid-Holland (Netherlands)
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- Uploaded the 2007-02-11 16:32:21
- Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
by Marco Langbroek - Extra information
- Camera: CANON DIGITAL IXUS 400
- Taken on 2007:02:11 15:59:41
- Exposure: 0.008s (1/125)
- Focal Length: 7.41mm
- F/Stop: f/7.100
- Exposure Bias: 0 EV
- No flash, Auto
Comments
Marco Langbroek, on February 11, 2007, said:
Additional info with this photograph: Van der Werff was mayor of Leiden during the Spanish siege of 1574. An appocryphal story has it that when the starving citizens of the town came begging him for help with food, he answered: "Then eat me!".
The statue and park are on the location of the 1807 gunpowder explosion.
Marco Langbroek, on March 23, 2008, said:
23/03/08: Somebody suggested a "corrected position" for this photograph yesterday: however, that suggestion was way out.