but the outer quarters,
including the Rozengracht, seem in disharmony. The reason must be sought
in the circumstance that the exploitation of these districts had to be
kept on an economical scale, since the three principal canals mentioned
above had been undertaken on so royal a scale. Therefore the existing
features were preserved: the many ditches, separating the meadows and
gardens formerly occupying this site, were simply widened into canals; and
the pathways, running between, were transformed into streets. The
peculiar characteristics of this part of the town, due to these conditions
of growth, made it into a typical quarter, known as the Jordaan; its
population has always been one of modest means, mixing little with the
town. So we see that it was very appropriate for the painter's
retirement, after his social downfall in the late fifties.

[Plate 22. The Inn Called "de Keizers Kroon" In The Kalverstraat,
Amsterdam]

Plate 22. The Inn Called "de Keizers Kroon" In The Kalverstraat,
Amsterdam. Here Rembrandt's collections were sold by auction, after his
bankruptcy, in 1657 and 1058. After an anonymous drawing in the Archives
in Amsterdam.

Not only the direction of its canals and streets remind one of the former
nature of this quarter, the places of amusement likewise are reminiscent
of the times when well-to-do citizens had their gardens and
pleasuregrounds amidst the meadows, before the city encroached upon them.
There were, for instance, two large gardens with mazes and fountains,
formerly the property of Amsterdam burghers, afterwards for many years an
attraction for the public. One of them, at the end of the Rozengracht,
was owned and managed by Lingelbach, the father of Johan the painter. An
inscription in the burial-book of the Westerkerk, saying that Rembrandt's
corpse came on the 8th of October, 1669, "from the Rozengracht opposite
the Labyrinth," painfully reminds us how for the last sad years of his
life the great painter had lived opposite this popular place of public
amusement.

[The House Of Mr. F. Banning Cocq ]

Plate 23. The House Of Mr. F. Banning Cocq (the Captain And Prominent
Person In Rembrandt's "Night-watch") In Amsterdam After an anonymous
drawing in the family archives of Jhr. D. de Graeff at The Hague

II

Having dealt with the t