WINTER VIEW WITH IRONMAK ON A BEVROREN KEIZERSGRACHT "Keizersgracht - Felix Meritis" Lithography made by P. Blommers in The Hague after a drawing by Willem Hekking jr., published by George Wilhelm Tielkemeijer as part of "Amsterdam in Sketches" from 1869. Later hand-coloured. Dim. 11.8 x 18.2 cm. We see Felix Meritis in a northerly direction. Until 1888, the building still housed the society that aimed, by way of useful recreation, at inculcating intelligence and virtue by practising the arts and sciences, and at promoting social intercourse among its members. Between numbers 312 and 314 on Keizersgracht, is the entrance to Berenstraat. On the far right the tower of the Westerkerk. On the canal the familiar elements of Dutch ice-skating scenes: a 'koek-en-zopie' stall, a push-sled, a skating couple, a horse-drawn sleigh, a mother giving her child with a chair its first skating lessons, a skater with a broom (to be able to save himself in case of emergency) and two men taking ice blocks out of a frozen canal. Price: Euro 295
