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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The Russell-Cotes painting Scene in Rotterdam by Pieter Cornelis Dommershuijzen shows a canal lined on either side by traditional Dutch housing. The artist has included various genre details to enliven the scene. In the right foreground he depicts a vegetable shop with full stalls under an awning. A man stands in its doorway and various clients gather round. A labourer walks past with a loaded sack, while another pushes a wheelbarrow. Further along the road, another man is seen shifting barrels. On the left, a man steers his boat along the canal under a low wooden bridge, on which a woman stands. In the distance the tall sails of several sailing boats are visible. Looming over the urban scene of everyday activity is the monumental tower of the gothic church of St Laurens, also called the Great Church. | Subjects: | townscape; place (Rotterdam) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dommershuijzen, Pieter Cornelis (Dutch, b.1834) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8470... | Go to resource |
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