[Illustration] DUTCH ETCHERS _OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY_ _By_ LAURENCE BINYON _Of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum_ [Illustration] LONDON SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, ESSEX STREET, STRAND NEW YORK, MACMILLAN AND CO. 1895 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _PLATES_ PAGE The Two Plough Horses. From the etching by Paul Potter. B. 12 _Frontispiece_ The Wife Spinning. From the etching by A. Van Ostade. B. 31 _to face_28 Sea Piece. From the etching by L. Backhuysen. B. 4 ” ” 52 Ox and Sheep. From the etching by A. Van de Velde. B. 12 ” ” 74 _ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT_ FIG. 1. The Spectacle Seller. By Ostade. B. 29 8 2. Peasant with a Pointed Cap. By Ostade. B. 3 10 3. Game of Backgammon. From a drawing by Ostade. British Museum 12 4. The Child and the Doll. By Ostade. B. 16 14 5. Man and Woman Conversing. By Ostade. B. 37 16 6. The Barn. By Ostade. B. 23 19 7. The Humpbacked Fiddler. By Ostade. B. 44 22 8. Peasant paying his Reckoning. By Ostade. B. 42 25 9. Saying Grace. By Ostade. B. 34 27 10. The Angler. By Ostade. B. 26 29 11. The Tavern. By Bega. B. 32 33 12. Tobias and the Angel. By H. Seghers. M. 236 36 13. The Flight into Egypt. By Rembrandt. M. 236 39 14. Three Men under a Tree. By Everdingen. B. 5 42 15. Landscape in Norway. By Everdingen. B. 75 43 16. Drinking the Waters at Spa. By Everdingen. B. 96 45 17. The Cornfield. By J. Ruisdael. B. 5 49 18. The Burnt House on the Canal. By Van der Heyden 51 19. Fishing Boats. By R. Zeeman. B. 38 54 20. Road, with Trees and Figures. By Breenbergh. B. 17 56 21. Landscape. By Both. B. 3 59 22. A Ram. By Berchem. B. 51 61 23. Title Piece. By Berchem. B. 35 64 24. The Bull. By Paul Potter. B. 1 66 25. Studies of a Dog. By Paul Potter. British Museum 69 26. The Cow. By Paul Potter. B. 3 72