Author: Claes Jansz Visscher (1586/87-1652)
Title: [Antique print, etching] Farms and bleaching fields/Boerderijen met blekervelden, published 1612.
Description: View of the outskirts of Haarlem, namely of farms and bleaching fields. On the left are the fields with clothes and other textiles being spread out to the sun.Numbered on the bottom right corner: '11'. Eleventh from a set of twelve views of the surroundings of Haarlem.The plate was also used in G. Tysens 'Haarlemmer Duinzang, ter eere van des zelfs vermákelyke Land- en Watergeziten, van Sandvoort af tot Haarlem. Versierd met twaalf naaukeurige Afbeeldingen', published in Amsterdam in 1728. Etching on laid paper trimmed within plate mark; total: 100 x 154 mm; in good condition. Traces of previous mounting on verso. Hollstein 159, Simon 137.

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