CIRCA 1740

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AN 'AMSTERDAM WATERFRONT' PLATE
CIRCA 1740
Finely painted with a view of the Nieuwe Stadsherberg, the public house on the River Ij in Amsterdam, with the masts of ships visible behind it and sailors rowing two small boats in the foreground

Provenance

Christie's, New York, January 1999, lot 84.

Lot Essay

See C. Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 108 for a 1664 Dutch engraving of the Stadsherberg, which stood on the Amsterdam wharf from 1662 to 1872, and, in the words of Howard and Ayers, op. cit., p. 193, must have been where the V.O.C. sailors "spent their last hours before embarkation.... and the first on their return".

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