Caption

View of Soissons, Soissons, print, album page, This print is part of an album., after drawing by Jan Peeters (I), publisher: Caspar Merian, Frankfurt am Main, colorer (graphic design artist): Anna Beeck, The Hague, 1656, printmaker, colorer (graphic design artist), Hessen, paper, engraving, etching, hand coloring, etching and engraving, hand-colored, cut within the plate edge and pasted in a hand-colored frame, title cut out of the image and glued above it, surrounding sky and clouds hand-painted, height 335 mm x width 326 mm, height 532 mm x width 636 mm, A wide panoramic scene dominated by a softly colored sky with layered horizontal bands of pale blue, pink, and yellow and wispy cloud shapes, including two larger rounded cloud forms outlined in a muted lavender hue above the horizon; below the sky a gently rolling landscape stretches with green hills, cultivated fields in varied pastel tones, and a river winding toward the foreground; clustered along the riverbank is a town with dense arrangements of small buildings, steeples, towers, and fortifications rendered in warm earthy and brick tones, while tiny figures and horses appear on roads and near the water, and the shoreline shows docks and small boats.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26B23_365

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Rights managed

Available size

48.9Mb (10.5Mb) / 13.3in x 14.3in / 3989 x 4284 (300dpi)

Keywords

View Soissons print album page part album drawing Jan Peeters I publisher Caspar Merian Frankfurt am Main colorer graphic design artist Anna Beeck Hague 1656 printmaker Hessen paper engraving etching hand coloring hand-colored cut within plate edge pasted hand-colored frame title cut image glued surrounding sky clouds hand-painted height 335 mm x width 326 mm height 532 mm x 636 mm wide panoramic scene dominated softly colored sky layered horizontal bands pale blue pink yellow wispy cloud shapes two larger rounded forms outlined muted lavender hue horizon gently rolling landscape stretches green hills cultivated fields varied pastel tones river winding foreground clustered riverbank town dense arrangements small buildings steeples towers fortifications rendered warm earthy brick tones tiny figures horses roads near water shoreline docks small boats