Homes, haunts, and works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, and Cuyp; the Dutch genre-painters; Michael Angelo and Raffaelle. Being a series of art-rambles in Belgium, Holland and Italy (1872)
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · New York : D. Appleton and co. · leaf 126
asions.There is no ether indication llian this of foreign travel in his life or works. REMBRANDT VAN RUIN. 109 nothing but bog and loose sand, and every inch of foundation forhuman habitation or use, has to be made by driving wooden pilesthrough this into the firmer sand below; each pile is formed… … Fig. 76.—Distant View of AmsterJam. the enormous quantity of timber upon which it is constructed,which led Erasmus to jocularly say of its inhabitants, that they,like crows, lived on the tops of trees. The distant view of thetown from the Y* side is very curious (Fig. 76), with its tall housesmixed…
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