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Women’s Skating Competition on the Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden, 21 January 1809
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At a women’s skating race in Leeuwarden in 1809, the crowd watched sixty-four unmarried women vie for a gold cap-brooch. The winner was Houkje Gerrits Bouma. For greater ease, many had thrown off their cloaks. Baur painted the finalists with bare arms, a jettisoned cloak on the ice. It left little to men’s imagination and caused an outcry; therefore it was the last women’s
race for many years.
Title: Women’s Skating Competition on the Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden, 21 January 1809
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At a women’s skating race in Leeuwarden in 1809, the crowd watched sixty-four unmarried women vie for a gold cap-brooch.
The winner was Houkje Gerrits Bouma.
For greater ease, many had thrown off their cloaks.
Baur painted the finalists with bare arms, a jettisoned cloak on the ice.
It left little to men’s imagination and caused an outcry; therefore it was the last women’s
race for many years.