# Landscape with Fishermen and Farmers Extracting Peat in a Marsh

- By: Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt (Hamm, 1746–1797)
- Date: 1783
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: depth 4.4 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4946--63fb6142a60d412d31d86bfa4eb0aa9f)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d78b994a29d9771f5bce7be7a002a593.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.