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Landscape with Fishermen and Farmers Extracting Peat in a Marsh
Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt, 1783
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.
- Artwork typepainting
- Object numberSK-A-4946
- Dimensionsheight 28.4 cm x width 37.6 cm, depth 4.4 cm, weight 1 kg
- Physical characteristicsoil on panel