Caption
The Church of St. John and the Main Guardhouse in Utrecht, View of the St. John's Church and the guardhouse in Utrecht, print, book illustration, printmaker: Hendrik Spilman, Haarlem, after drawing by Jan de Beijer, publisher: Isaak Tirion, Amsterdam, 1744 - 1758, Hendrik Spilman, Jan de Beijer, Isaak Tirion, printmaker, after drawing by, publisher, paper, etching, engraving, height 161 mm x width 206 mm, Print also used in: Present State of the United Netherlands, eleventh part, containing a description of the province of Utrecht. Decorated with maps, plans of the cities and print illustrations, Contemporary History, or Present State of all Peoples, 21st part (…). Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion, 1758, between p. 372 and p. 373, public road, Utrecht, Janskerk (Utrecht), A detailed etching shows a large brick church with tall arched windows and decorative gable ends, a smaller attached building with a rounded roof feature, and a tower with a cupola and weather vane rising behind the main structure; in front of the church a group of uniformed figures lines up near the entrance while scattered pedestrians and a couple walk across an open paved area with small dogs; to the right a row of tall leafy trees creates a shaded avenue with benches and lamp posts visible among the trunks, and buildings peek out beyond the trees; the sky is rendered with horizontal lines and soft cloud forms.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26A87_407
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