Пост 48 (17). Вермеер и Дельфтская школа. Часть первая. Примечания

Примечания

      1 All the above quotes are from Pepys 1985, pp. 46-47 (entry for May 18, 166o ), except the remark about being "with child;' which was written on shipboard with The Hague in view (p. 43; entry for May 14-15). On Pepys as a connoisseur, see Liedtke 1991b. Pepys's career and figures in his circle, such as Montagu, are admirably presented in Ollard 1984. The Oude Gasthuis is discussed by W Almema in Delft 1981, pp. 58-60. On Adriaen van de Venne's colored drawing of the canal barge approaching The Hague from the direction of Delft (fig. 4 here), see Royalton-Kisch 1988, no. 65.

2. For routes and statistics, see J. De Vries 1974, pp. 208-9, and map 5.1 (internal waterways in the Netherlands about r66o ). The twice-hourly canal-boat service between Delft and The Hague was evidently the most frequent intercity run in Holland.

A vivid example of the ease of travel in seventeenth-century Holland is found in Schellinks 1993, p.

31. On July 14, r66r, the painter Willem Schellinks (1623-1678) left Amsterdam for Haarlem in the morning, visited acquaintances, and then boarded a pleasure yacht, "with silken flags flying from mast and stern, and well provided with all kinds of special delicacies and drinks, fruit and other things in plenty." A draft horse pulled the boat through Leiden and on to a country house at Zoeterwoude; there, the party paused for more refreshments, returned to the canal by wagon, and took the yacht to The Hague, where they arrived at ten in the evening. Thus Schellinks had been in Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, Zoeterwoude, and The Hague in the course of a leisurely day, progressing at the speed of a single draft horse pulling a loaded yacht. The same craft took Schellinks and the rest of the company to Delft the next day, which they simply passed on their way south to the Maas River. At four in the afternoon Schellinks took a boat to Den Briel, while the yacht went home to Haarlem. He sailed for England the next day.

3. See Veldhuijzen's introduction to D. Beck 1993, pp. 7-24, on Beck's life and writings.

4. Ibid., pp. 37-38 (entry for January 24, 1624). Hendrick Beck paid a similar visit to David at The Hague on January r6. He arrived during lunch, spent an hour and a half talking about the improvement of his school and other subjects, and then went back to Delft at three. On January 21 Beck sent his brother Abraham to Delft with his French Bible; Abraham was back with a letter from Hendrick before noon (D. Beck 1993, pp. 33, 36). On Herman Breckerveld (1595/96-1673), see E.W. Moes in Thieme and Becker 1907-50, vol. 4 (1910), p. 561, and The Hague 1998-99a, p. 290.

5. D. Beck 1993, pp. 67 (entry for March 28), 71, 75-76.

6. See Neuman's essay " 'Aller Steden Pronkjuweel ': Den Haag in de 17de eeuw;' in The Hague 1998-99a, pp. 13-24. Beck himself was part of the "support community'' at The Hague, since he not only taught school but also tutored adults in foreign languages and did his best to publish poetry.

7. D. Beck 1993, pp. 82, 85.

8. Wheelock in Washington, The Hague 1995-96, p. 16.

9. Montias 1982, p. 62, citing Briels 1974, p. 241. Montias kindly brought Larson's brother to my attention in a letter ofJanuary 4, 2000.

10. Evelyn 1952, pp. 18-19, 22-23. See Royalton-Kisch 1988, no. 69, for Van de Venne's drawing of a wagon making its way between towns. David Beck (1993, p. 41) took a wagon rather than the canal boat to Delft after receiving a letter saying that his brother was sick. Wagons were faster and could depart on demand.