Description
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscription
Inscribed in grey-black ink, lower right: "Rowlandson 1791"; in grey black ink, lower centre: "VIEW OF THE MARKET PLACE AT JULIERS IN WESTPHALIA, | The dutchy of Juliers is situate between the Maase and the Rhine and bounded by the Prussian Guilderland on the north, | by the electorate of Triers on the south by the electorate of Cologne on the east, and by the Netherlands on the west, being | about 60 Miles long, and 30 broad. This is a very plentiful country, abounding in corn, cattle and fine meadows, and is | plentifuly supplied with wood, but is remarkably prinncipally for a fine breed of horses, and wood for drying which is | gathered here in abundance. The Chief Towns are, Juliers, Aix la Chappelle, Durn, Munster, Bedbur, Wasenberg, and Lanterns".
Descriptive Medium
Watercolour with pen and brown, black, and grey ink over graphite
Image Licence
Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art
Image Credit
image credit Yale Center for British Art
Location
Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Country
Germany
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
