# Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

- By: Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, Haarlem 1610–1685 Haarlem)
- Date: 1673
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor, white heightening, over graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink and gold
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: 9 5/8 x 7 15/16 in. (24.4 x 20.2 cm)
- Culture: Dutch
- Credit line: Bequest of Lore Heinemann, in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1996
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337632)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP800544.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)