Caption
Part of the gallery surrounding the Civic Hall in the City Hall on the Dam, The Gallery seen from the Great Hall, North, print, book illustration, Part of the gallery surrounding the Civic Hall in the City Hall on the Dam in Amsterdam. View from the eastern gallery towards the corner of the northern gallery with the statue of Saturn. Figures walking and talking in the gallery. Below the title a scale bar: 20 Feet Maet. Marked bottom right: W., printmaker: Dancker Danckerts (possibly), Amsterdam, printmaker: Cornelis Danckerts (I) (possibly), after drawing by Jacob Vennekool, after design by Jacob van Campen, after sculpture by Artus Quellinus (I), 1661, Artus Quellinus (I), after sculpture by, paper, etching, engraving, height 395 mm x width 227 mm, A tall, vaulted interior space rendered in fine line engraving with a large arched opening in the foreground leading into a long corridor flanked by a colonnade and pilasters, a coffered barrel ceiling with decorative motifs, and a patterned tiled floor receding into the distance; along the left side are a series of columns and deep shadowed recesses, and along the right a wall with pilasters and an opening framed by a sculpted niche; small groups of people are scattered through the space, including two figures conversing near the right foreground, a standing woman with a child near the left foreground, a person with a dog, and a group of three further back by the arches; architectural ornamentation such as capitals, cornices, and a central pedestal with a relief or statue is visible, and the entire scene is depicted in monochrome with precise hatching and cross-hatching.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B34_210
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