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Title: Rembrandt's Amsterdam

Author: Frits Lugt

Release Date: January 30, 2010 [Ebook #31127]

Language: English

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Rembrandt's Amsterdam

Reprinted, by permission of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from "The
Print-Collector's Quarterly"

Frits Lugt

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1915

CONTENTS

Map Key
REMBRANDT'S AMSTERDAM
Footnotes

ILLUSTRATIONS

PLAN OF THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM ABOUT 1650
Plate 1. View of Amsterdam from the East. _(reversed)_. After the etching
by Rembrandt
Plate 2. The Old Town Hall in Amsterdam. After an engraving by Cl. Jz.
Visscher.
Plate 3. The Ruins of the Old Town Hall in Amsterdam, after the Fire in
1652. After the drawing by Rembrandt, formerly in the Heseltine
Collection, now in the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam.
Plate 4. The New Town-Hall in Amsterdam, about 1660. The square building
on the right is the public Weighing-House, where Rembrandt sketched the
ruins of the old town-hall (see preceding illustration). After an etching
by J. van der Ulft, 1656.
Plate 5. The Bridge Called "Grimnessesluis" in Amsterdam. After the
drawing by Rembrandt in the Louvre, Paris. Reproduced, by permission,
from a copyright photograph by Messrs. Braun and Co., Dornach.
Plate 6. View of the Ramparts of Amsterdam, with the St. Anthony-Gate in
the Distance. After the drawing by Rembrandt, formerly in the Heseltine
Collection.
Plate 7. Mills on the West Side of Amsterdam, Looking Toward the Town.
After the drawing by Rembrandt, formerly in the Heseltine Collection, now
in a private collection in Kopenhagen.
Plate 8. View of the Same Side of Town as in Plate 7, but Looking Outward.
The tower on the left is the same as sketched by Rembrandt (_plate 13_).
After an etching by R. Zeeman, about 1650.
Plate 9. The Tower Called "Montelraanstoren" In Amsterdam After the
drawing by Rembrandt, formerly in the Heseltine Collection, now in the
Rembrandt House, Amsterdam
Plate 10. The Same Tower as in the Preceding Illustration, w