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Landscape with Fishermen and Farmers Extracting Peat in a Marsh
Also titled Landschap met vissers en turfstekende boeren in het laagveen
Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (Hamm, 1746–1797)
1783
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 4.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Here, peat –an important source of fuel –is being extracted from below the water table, a common technique in the west and north of the Netherlands. The man in the little boat dredges the peat from the water; it is then spread out on the ground. The woman in the distance stamps the peat drying in the sun into a hard mass. This is subsequently cut with a spade into easy-to-use blocks, which are then left to dry out fully.
