Nº 4
Reading edition
Johannes Bosboom DUTCH: 1817-1891
CASTLE BY THE SEA
Water Color
Height, 11 inches; width, 8½ inches
In a broad, open street or market-place in a small fishing village in Holland stands a lofty stone building with a corner tower, evidently the relics of bygone grandeur. Alongside, and contrasting strongly with it, is a low cottage with red-tiled roof, and beyond it are other cottages at the foot of a dune, over the crest of which is seen the mast of a fishing vessel. A few figures are grouped in the shade of the tower and a woman is walking toward the foreground in the sunlight.
Signed at the lower left, Bosboom, ’61.