Chapter I: Front Matter

DUTCH ETCHERS

_OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY_

_By_

LAURENCE BINYON

_Of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum_

LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, ESSEX STREET, STRAND
NEW YORK, MACMILLAN AND CO.
1895

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_PLATES_

PAGE

The Two Plough Horses. From the etching by Paul Potter. B. 12 _Frontispiece_

The Wife Spinning. From the etching by A. Van Ostade. B. 31 _to face_28

Sea Piece. From the etching by L. Backhuysen. B. 4 ” ” 52

Ox and Sheep. From the etching by A. Van de Velde. B. 12 ” ” 74

_ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT_

FIG.

1. The Spectacle Seller. By Ostade. B. 29 8

2. Peasant with a Pointed Cap. By Ostade. B. 3 10

3. Game of Backgammon. From a drawing by Ostade. British Museum 12

4. The Child and the Doll. By Ostade. B. 16 14

5. Man and Woman Conversing. By Ostade. B. 37 16

6. The Barn. By Ostade. B. 23 19

7. The Humpbacked Fiddler. By Ostade. B. 44 22

8. Peasant paying his Reckoning. By Ostade. B. 42 25

9. Saying Grace. By Ostade. B. 34 27

10. The Angler. By Ostade. B. 26 29

11. The Tavern. By Bega. B. 32 33

12. Tobias and the Angel. By H. Seghers. M. 236 36

13. The Flight into Egypt. By Rembrandt. M. 236 39

14. Three Men under a Tree. By Everdingen. B. 5 42

15. Landscape in Norway. By Everdingen. B. 75 43

16. Drinking the Waters at Spa. By Everdingen. B. 96 45

17. The Cornfield. By J. Ruisdael. B. 5 49

18. The Burnt House on the Canal. By Van der Heyden 51

19. Fishing Boats. By R. Zeeman. B. 38 54

20. Road, with Trees and Figures. By Breenbergh. B. 17 56

21. Landscape. By Both. B. 3 59

22. A Ram. By Berchem. B. 51 61

23. Title Piece. By Berchem. B. 35 64

24. The Bull. By Paul Potter. B. 1 66

25. Studies of a Dog. By Paul Potter. British Museum 69

26. The Cow. By Paul Potter. B. 3 72

27. Mules. By K. Du Jardin. B. 2 73

28. Pigs. By K. Du Jardin. B. 15 76

29. A Goat. By A. Van de Velde. B. 16 78

DUTCH ETCHERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY