Caption

View of Doullens, Dourlans, 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 312 mm x width 309 mm, height 532 mm x width 633 mm, A pastel sky with layered clouds in soft blues, pinks, and yellows stretches across the top, with rounded pinkish cloud forms near the center and thin horizontal cloud bands lower down; a vertical seam runs down the middle of the image. Below the sky, a distant walled town with clustered buildings and a river or moat sits amid rolling green fields and low hills. In the foreground on the right, tall trees with dense dark green foliage and a few bare branches stand on a slope above a dirt path where several small figures on foot and on horseback travel, some wearing colored garments. On the left foreground, a figure stands near a plowed field with an animal pulling a cart, and scattered bushes and low vegetation dot the landscape.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26B23_409

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40.1Mb (7.2Mb) / 12.1in x 12.9in / 3625 x 3866 (300dpi)

Keywords

View Doullens Dourlans 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 312 mm x width 309 mm height 532 mm x 633 mm pastel sky layered clouds soft blues pinks yellows stretches across top rounded pinkish cloud forms near center thin horizontal cloud bands lower down vertical seam runs down middle sky distant walled town clustered buildings river moat sits rolling green fields low hills foreground right tall trees dense dark green foliage bare branches stand slope dirt path several small figures foot horseback travel wearing colored garments left foreground figure stands near plowed field animal pulling cart scattered bushes low vegetation dot landscape