JUDGMENT OF WOUTER VAN TWILLER
£75.00
Original 1878 9 inch x 7 1/4 inch engraving titled JUDGMENT OF WOUTER VAN TWILLER
Wouter van Twiller was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the Director of New Netherland from 1632 until 1638. He succeeded Peter Minuit, who was recalled by the Dutch West India authorities in Amsterdam for unknown reasons.
Engraved by William Greatbach (1802 – 1894), 2 Crescent Place, Mornington Crescent, London. William Greatbach enjoyed a lengthy career as a portrait and figure engraver, working, in particular, for the annuals which became popular from the 1820s onwards .
After George Henry Boughton (1833 – 1905). Boughton was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.
Inscription below the image and title: From the picture in the possession of the Publishers
Published in the Art Journal by J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., London.
Page size 12 3/8 inch x 9 1/4 inch
The engraving is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.
Availability: 1 in stock
