Tile Heritage Foundation

Water and Country Scenes, 1850-1900.
Gift of Anthony N. B. Garvan
[cat. # 174, p. 137]

“Throughout the Dutch Golden Age of the 1600s the native countryside was celebrated in paintings, prints and literature. Tiles featuring land and water vignettes first appeared at the beginning of the 1600s and continued to be manufactured, with little design variation until about 1900.”