- Tipped-in annots. by Van den Broek on upper pastedown; the first plate trifle soiled and w. contemp. annot. in blank margin just touching the image; 1 plate lacks sm. portion of blank margin; 3 plates trifle soiled; otherwise fine.
= Hollstein 149-160, first state (of 2); cat. Harlemia illustrata 57-67; Ekama 409; De Groot, Landscape 23-34; Ackley 36: "The first of a number of etched landscape series published in the period 1611-1616 in which a new, native vision of the Dutch landscape, its modest pleasures and characteristic spaces, was formulated." and Freedberg p.31: "(...) it is the neighbourhood of Haarlem, the indigenous countryside, that is now recognised as capable of offering what art lovers expected from a landscape - and the emphasis is on its pleasurable element." Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his bookplate. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.