# Tile Panel with a Herring Fleet

- By: Tegelbakkerij aan de Delftschevaart
- Date: c. 1700 - c. 1725
- Medium: earthenware, tin glaze
- Classification: tile tableau
- Dimensions: height 155 cm x width 194 cm x thickness 5.5 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-NM-10831-A--e52429cc8d22f0a2868a306ca0719224)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/UDKPq/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This tableau consisting of 180 tiles can rival any painting. The Rotterdam tile painter Cornelis Boumeester painted compositions in a range of blue tints. Amid the herring fleet is the Rotterdam, a warship, with the city's coat of arms on the stern, the rearmost part of the boat. Painted tiles with recognizable depictions were extremely popular as wall decoration in the Netherlands.