The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam (37 page)

1. become sailors, the whores and bawds relieved them of their earnings so briskly that they had little choice but to sign up again:
   

   A seaman with his bill of debt, Goodbye, Pierrot, goodbye, my pet, He sails again, as is the rule.
   

   He sails, the poor defrauded fool,
   

   For brothel-keeper, bawd, and whore, A sailor, he, for evermore.
   166
   

   Notes
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   Unless otherwise mentioned, archive numbers and references to Handschrift (Manuscript) and Bibliotheek (Library), refer to the Amsterdam City Archives. ARA denotes the Algemeen Rijks Archief, recently renamed Het Nationaal Archief (The National Archives) in The Hague. UB stands for Universiteit Bibliotheek. UB Leiden, UB Utrecht and so forth refer to the University Libraries in those cities.
   

   introduction
   

   1. Mary Lindemann, ‘Der Jungfer Heinrich’, in Otto Ulbricht (ed.),
      Von Huren und
      R
      abenmüttern: Weibliche Kriminalität in der frühen Neuzeit
      (Cologne,
      1995
      ),
      259
      –
      79
      , at
      265
      .
      

   2. Elkanah Watson,
      A Tour in Holland
      (London,
      1789
      ),
      130
      (See App. I)
      

   3. Louis Desjobert,‘Voyage aux Pays Bas en
      1778
      ’,
      De Navorscher
      ,
      59
      (
      1910
      ),
      5
      –
      21
      , at
      18
      –
      19
      .The Duchess of Chartres (who was a member of the French royal family) and the Princess of Lamballe had visited the Netherlands in the summer of
      1777
      , as guests of the Prince and Princess of Orange.
      

   4. Margaret C. Jacob, ‘The Materialistic World of Pornography’, in Lynn Hunt (ed.),
      The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity
      (New York,
      1993
      ),
      157
      –
      202
      , at
      200
      , and information received verbally from Margaret Jacob.
      

   5. Giacomo Casanova,
      Histoire de ma vie: Édition intégrale
      ,
      12
      vols. (Wiesbaden,
      1960
      ),vol.v,ch.
      7
      and vol.vi,ch.
      1
      ; Charles-Joseph, Prince de Ligne,
      Fragments de l’histoire de ma vie
      , F. Leuridant (ed.),
      2
      vols. (Paris,
      1927
      -
      8
      ), i,
      67
      -
      70
      .
      

   6. J. C. Breen,
      R
      echtsbronnen der stad Amsterdam
      (The Hague,
      1902
      ),
      910
      .
      

   7. In the years
      1650
      ,
      1700
      , and
      1750
      the population of London was respec- tively
      400
      ,
      000
      ,
      575
      ,
      000
      , and
      675
      ,
      000
      ; that of Paris respectively
      430
      ,
      000
      ,
      510
      ,
      000
      , and
      576
      ,
      000
      : Jan de Vries,
      European Urbanization
      1500
      -
      1800
      (London,
      1984
      ),
      270
      -
      8
      . For Amsterdam see also Hubert Nusteling,
      Welvaart en werkgelegenheid in Amsterdam
      1540
      –
      1860
      (Amsterdam,
      1985
      ), ch.
      2
      and
      

      p.
      51
      ; M. H. D. van Leeuwen and J. E. Oeppen, ‘
      R
      econstructing the
      

      Demographic
      R
      egime of Amsterdam
      1681
      -
      1920
      ’, in
      Economic and Social History in the Netherlands,
      5
      (
      1993
      ),
      61
      -
      102
      , at
      87
      .
      

   8. Thomas Nugent,
      The Grand Tour, or a Journey Through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France
      , i.
      The Traveller’s Guide Through the Netherlands
      (London,
      1756
      ),
      160
      .
      

   9. Lotte C. van de Pol,‘The History of Policing Prostitution in Amsterdam’, in Hans Krabbendam and Hans-Martien ten Napel (eds.),
      R
      egulating Morality: A Comparison of the
      R
      ole of the State in Mastering the Mores in the Netherlands and the United States
      (Antwerp and Apeldoorn,
      2000
      ),
      97
      -
      112
      .
      

   10. For the historical meanings of words, extensive use has been made of the
       Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal
       , the standard dictionary of the Dutch language, published in
       29
       volumes plus supplement from
       1864
       to
       1998
       and also available on Internet at http://wnt.inl.nl.
       

   11. Vern L. Bullough,
       The History of Prostitution
       (New York,
       1964
       ),
       1
       –
       5
       ; Iwan Bloch,
       Die Prostitution
       , i (Berlin,
       1912
       ),
       7
       -
       38
       .
       

12
.
5061
-
318
f.
27
vo,
20
Dec.
1667
.

1. Art historians have fallen into this trap. See e.g. Svetlana Alpers,
   R
   embrandt’s Enterprise:The Studio and the Market
   (Chicago,
   1988
   ),
   65
   .
   

2. Het Amsterdamsch Hoerdom, behelzende de listen en streeken, daar zich de Hoeren en Hoere-Waardinnen van dienen; benevens der zelver maniere van leeven, dwaaze bygelovigheden, en in’t algemeen alles ’t geen by dese Juffers in gebruik is
   (Amsterdam,
   1681
   ),
   30
   -
   1
   and
   270
   -
   1
   .
   

3. The word ‘whore’ undergoes a similar development in several languages. For English see
   R
   andolph Trumbach,‘Modern Prostitution and Gender in
   Fanny Hill
   : Libertine and Domesticated Fantasy’, in G. S.
   R
   ousseau and
   R
   oy Porter (eds.),
   Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment
   (Manchester,
   1987
   ),
   69
   -
   85
   , at
   73
   .
   

16
.
5061
-
312
f.
119
vo,
29
Aug.
1658
.

17
.
5061
-
385
f.
190
vo,
2
July
1727
.

18
.
5061
-
449
p.
426
,
29
Mar.
1782
.

1. Simon van Leeuwen,
   Het
   R
   ooms-Hollands-regt, waar in de
   R
   oomse wetten met het huydendaagse Neerlands regt, in alles dat tot de dagelijkse onderhouding kan dienen ...over een gebragt werden, etc
   . (Amsterdam,
   1698
   ),
   475
   .
   

2. KeithThomas,
   The Ends of Life:
   R
   oads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England
   

   (Oxford,
   2009
   ),
   163
   .
   

3. See e.g. Cornelis D. van Strien,
   Touring the Low Countries:Accounts of British Travellers,
   1660
   -
   1720
   (Amsterdam,
   1998
   ),
   379
   -
   90
   .
   

4. J. H. Böse,
   ‘Had de mensch met één vrou niet connen leven ...’ Prostitie in de literatuur van de zeventiende eeuw
   (Zutphen,
   1985
   ).
   

5. There is no extant copy of the first edition of the second volume, but the French translation of both volumes appeared in
   1682
   .
   

6. Lotte C. van de Pol, ‘Jacob Campo Weyerman en de prostitutie van zijn tijd’, in
   Mededelingen van de Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman
   22
   (
   1999
   ),
   1
   -
   18
   .
   

7. Boereverhaal van geplukte Gys, aan sluuwe Jaap, wegens zyne Amsterdamsche zwier-party, of saamenspraak tuschen hun beiden, over de heedendaagsche speel-
   

   huizen, meisjes van plaizier en derzelver aanhang. Door eenen liefhebber der dicht- kunst in rym gebracht. Gedrukt voor den auteur
   (n.p.,
   c
   .
   1750
   ),
   29
   .
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   ‌
   

8. Bodleian Library Oxford, Douce A
   344
   (
   2
   ).
   

9. The London Jilt; or, the Politick Whore,
   ed. Charles H. Hinnant (Broadview Press,
   2008
   ).
   

10. Several popular Dutch works were published in London at around this time, with the text in English and the setting transposed to England. Sometimes even the illustrations were adapted. Another unacknowledged translation from the Dutch is
    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage
    with its sequel
    The Confessions of the New-Married Couple
    . See Henk Borst and Marije Schaake, ‘Van Amsterdam naar London, populair proza in vertaling rond
    1683
    ’,
    Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis
    ,
    3
    (
    1996
    ),
    25
    -
    54
    .
    

11. Lotte C. van de Pol,‘Beeld en werkelijkheid van de prostitutie in de zeven- tiende eeuw’, in Gert Hekma and Herman
    R
    oodenburg (eds.),
    Soete minne en helsche boosheit: Seksuele voorstellingen in Nederland,
    1300
    -
    1850
    (Nijmegen,
    1988
    ),
    109
    -
    44,
    and idem,The whore, the bawd, and the artist: the reality and imagery of seventeenth-century Dutch prostitution’,
    Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.
    Vol.
    2
    , no.
    102
    (
    2010
    ). At www.jhna.org/index.ph
    p.
    

12. Mary Lindemann,‘The Multiple Identities of Maiden Heinrich, Hamburg
    1700
    ’, in Ulinka
    R
    ublack (ed.),
    Gender in Early Modern History
    (Cambridge,
    2002
    ) takes a closer look at the contradictory stories told by Buncke.
    

13. Examples include Simon Schama,
    The Embarrassment of
    R
    iches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
    (New York,
    1987
    ); Karel Davids and Jan Lucassen (eds.),
    A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch
    R
    epublic in European Perspective
    (Cambridge,
    1995
    ); Jonathan Israel,
    The Dutch
    R
    epublic: Its
    R
    ise, Greatness and Fall,
    1477
    –
    1806
    (Oxford,
    1998
    ). A.Th van Deursen,
    Plain Lives in a Golden Age:Popular Culture,
    R
    eligion,and Society in Seventeenth- Century Holland
    (Cambridge
    1991
    ), focuses on the lives of the common population; Maarten Prak,
    The Dutch
    R
    epublic in the Seventeenth Century:The Golden Age
    (Cambridge,
    2005
    ) has a good section on further reading.
    

chapter 1

1. Cited in Thorsten J. Sellin,
   Pioneering in Penology:The Amsterdam houses of correction in the
   16
   th and
   17
   th centuries
   (Philadelphia,
   1944
   ),
   98
   .
   

2. Cited in Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau,‘
   Le voyage de Hollande
   ’
   :
   R
   écits de voyageurs français dans les Provinces-Unies
   1748
   –
   1795
   (Groningen,
   1992
   ),
   76
   .
   

3. 5053
   -
   1474
   -
   1
   ;
   5053
   -
   263
   -
   5233
   ; Letter to the Burgomaster of Amsterdam,
   6
   

   June
   1811
   .
   

4. J. C. Nieuwenhuis,
   Proeve eener geneeskundige plaatsbeschrijving der stad Amsterdam
   , i (Amsterdam,
   1816
   ),
   200
   , and ii (Amsterdam,
   1817
   ),
   207
   .
   

5. Erica-Marie Benabou,
   La Prostitution et la police des mœurs au XVIII
   e
   siècle
   

   (Paris,
   1987
   ),
   326
   -
   9
   .
   

6. Cited in Trumbach,‘Modern Prostitution’,
   72
   .
   

7. Boereverhaal
   , p.
   29
   .
   

8
. See e.g.
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-
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f.
174
,
28
Sept.
1722
;
5061
-
365
f.
135
vo,
7
Sept.
1712
;

5061
-
406
f.
201
vo,
22
Aug.
1746
.

1. Het Amsterdamsch Hoerdom
   ,
   267
   -
   8
   .
   

2. Denis Diderot,
   Over Holland: Een journalistieke reis
   1773
   -
   1774
   , ed.Yves Benot (Amsterdam and Antwerp,
   1994
   ),
   110
   and
   54
   n.
   14
   , trans. from the French:
   Voyage en Hollande
   (
   1780-2
   ).
   

3. Cited in van Strien-Chardonneau,‘
   Le voyage
   ’,
   76
   .
   

4. See e.g. J. C. van Dillen,
   Van rijkdom en regenten: Handboek tot de economische en sociale geschiedenis van Nederland tijdens de
   R
   epubliek
   (The Hague,
   1970
   ),
   287
   -
   8
   and Diderot,
   Over Holland
   ,
   87
   .
   

5. H. C. H. Moquette,
   De vrouw
   ii:
   Maatschappelijk leven
   (Amsterdam,
   1915
   ),
   69
   -
   70
   .
   

6. Diderot,
   Over Holland
   93
   .