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Dutch steamers on the frozen Zuyder Zee
Also titled Hollandse stomers
William Heath (1795–1840)
1829
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- cartoon
- Dimensions
- height 253 mm x width 359 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This artist of this print enlivened his impressions of a journey through the Netherlands with some old stereotypes. Such as the classic big bottoms covered by puffy breeches and skirts. And the penchant for smoking, carried to extremes. Also prominent is the independent Dutch woman. But perhaps there is also some awe at how effortlessly the Dutch glide across the ice?
