The Canal, Quay and Maison des Bateliers, Ghent
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Photograph
Lovell Reeve
English, 1814–1865
E. Moxham
Maker
The Canal, Quay and Maison des Bateliers, Ghent
From "The Stereoscopic Cabinet, or Monthly Packet of Pictures for the Stereoscope", No.II
December 1859
Albumen silver print
7.0 x 7.0 each on 8.5 x 17.3 cm. mount
Purchase
1986.0947.0005
Inscriptions verso-(printed label) "Maison des Bateliers, Ghent. In the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries no less than two hundred Trade Corporations
existed in the then renowed city of Ghent, and it would appear from
the building in our stereograph that the Bateliers, or Boatmen,
occupied no mean position among their fellow-burghers. It is perhaps
the most ornamental, though certainly not the purest in style, of any
of the class remaining... The building dates from 1531. At present it
is occupied as a private house. E.M."
and sixteenth centuries no less than two hundred Trade Corporations
existed in the then renowed city of Ghent, and it would appear from
the building in our stereograph that the Bateliers, or Boatmen,
occupied no mean position among their fellow-burghers. It is perhaps
the most ornamental, though certainly not the purest in style, of any
of the class remaining... The building dates from 1531. At present it
is occupied as a private house. E.M."
