Souvenirs des Pays Bas 1854; eight Dutch scenes arranged in a cartouche, including fishermen on the beach, skaters on the ice, market scenes, a milkmaid, figures in a tavern, a fisherman and his wife dancing, and a sailor in the Orient

In Onze Hedendaagsche Schilders, The Hague, 1882, Carel Vosmaer described that in the 1840s Ten Kate often visited his brother, than a priest on the isle of Marken, North of Amsterdam. On Marken he made a number of studies of fishermen in their traditional costume, which is illustrated in the lower right scene of the present lot. Costumes from other cities appear in the other scenes, while the trophies on both sides of the Dutch arms in the upper centre show agricultural tools and cheese at the left, and painting tools at the right. This may indicate that this watercolour was a gift for a foreign tourist, possibly an artist