Soldiers Loading Barges for a Large Sailing Ship Along the Coast

Dirk Langendijk Dutch

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Langendijk portrays the waterfront as a site where members of different classes converge. The officers or gentlemen at center are juxtaposed with the laborers struggling to load packs onto mules; the fishermen taking account of their catch in the foreground; and the impoverished woman and children at right.

Soldiers Loading Barges for a Large Sailing Ship Along the Coast, Dirk Langendijk (Dutch, Rotterdam 1748–1805 Rotterdam), Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

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