AN AMSTERDAM WATERFRONT PLATE

CIRCA 1765

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AN AMSTERDAM WATERFRONT PLATE
Circa 1765
Finely painted iwth 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
9in. (22.8cm.) diameter

Provenance

The Lucile and Robert H. Gries Charity Fund
Western Reserve Historical Society

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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