Ons voorgeslacht in zijn dagelyksch leven geschilderd
A six-volume Dutch popular history by the poet and schoolmaster Willem Jacobszoon Hofdijk, published at Haarlem from 1859, reconstructing the daily life of the Netherlands' ancestors for general readers. Tinted lithograph plates show medieval interiors, armoured men with banners, castles on wooded hills and church exteriors, drawn in pale washes of ochre, green and grey over fine outline \u2014 useful for period costume, architectural silhouettes and muted historical colour schemes.
