Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 2) (London: Smith and Son, 1830)

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bridge; in the opposite side lie some trunks of trees, beyond
which is seen a cottage surrounded by clustering groves; a
brilliant sunset lights up the marshy valley in the centre.
Engraved by Bolswert.
There is a copy of this print, in reverse, by Van Tienen ex.

1208. A Landscape, with the ruins of a castle or convent
upon a rugged hill in the right, and a rapid stream ssows
obliquely to the fore-ground in the opposite side, through
which three females, preceded by a fourth carrying a basket of
fruit on her head, are preparing to pass ; a man, leaning on a
stick, tending five goats, is on the farther bank of the water in
the second distance, beyond whom are three travellers and a
laden ass.
Engraved by Bolswert.
1209- A bald mountainous View, with a castle upon the
summit of a distant hill, surrounded by an irregular wall
extending down the side of the hill; the fore-ground exhibits
bold rocky masses broken by chasms, among which grow a few
stunted bushes, and near these are two goats browsing upon
the scanty herbage ; at some distance off, on the right, are
a man on horseback and another on foot, driving a ssock of
sheep; and beyond these are several buildings, and a river
ssowing through a valley.
Engraved by Bolswert.
1210. A View over an open ssat country, chiessy composed
of meadow lands, intersected in parts by dwarf hedges ; the
fore-ground presents a marshy soil, with a pool of water on the
right; and another, in the opposite side, with trees growing on
its banks ; in the centre and front are a man with a basket at
his back, and a woman with one on her arm and another on her
head. A farm-house, and the steeple of a church, are seen in
the distance.
Engraved by Bolswert.