View on the IJ in front of Amsterdam. (Detail)
In the foreground a milk boat from Waterland rowed by a man and five women wearing the traditional straw hats, and a helmsman is transporting the milk to the city.
[See also my album Melkschuit 2]
In the background left a Dutch Whaler just hauled up the anchor and is turning in the direction of the Zuiderzee on the way to the arctic.
On the horizon the gallows, four poles built above a stone pit, where the bodies of criminals were hanged as a warning to everybody who entered Amsterdam. Most visitors came by the ship via the Zuiderzee.
At right the Toll House, the place where ferries picked up passengers for Amsterdam to cross the IJ.
Painting by by Aernout Smit 1640-1710
Provenance: The Inder Rieden Collection
View on the IJ in front of Amsterdam. (Detail)
In the foreground a milk boat from Waterland rowed by a man and five women wearing the traditional straw hats, and a helmsman is transporting the milk to the city.
[See also my album Melkschuit 2]
In the background left a Dutch Whaler just hauled up the anchor and is turning in the direction of the Zuiderzee on the way to the arctic.
On the horizon the gallows, four poles built above a stone pit, where the bodies of criminals were hanged as a warning to everybody who entered Amsterdam. Most visitors came by the ship via the Zuiderzee.
At right the Toll House, the place where ferries picked up passengers for Amsterdam to cross the IJ.
Painting by by Aernout Smit 1640-1710
Provenance: The Inder Rieden Collection