A Life Rooted in Leiden In the quiet streets of Leiden, where history seemed to breathe through every brick and canal, Jacobus Ludovic and his initials, J.L. Cornet, carved out a life dedicated to the preservation of the past. Born in 1815, he did not merely observe the world around him; he sought to capture its very essence through the tip of a brush and the precision of an engraver's tool. While he received formal instruction in draw…