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Rijksmuseum

12 works

Monochrome brown painting of Hercules in a lion skin struggling with the centaur Nessus beneath him, club raised overhead.

Triumph over Death: Samson Carries the Gates of the City of Gaza | Hercules Kills the Centaur Nessus

Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1550 - c. 1560

Winter scene of crowds skating on a frozen river beside a city gate, a wooden tower and tents, with church spires behind.

Ice pleasure on the city dig (or The Kranenhoofd on the Scheldt, Antwerp; or Winter Pastime on the Scheldt in Antwerp)

Sebastiaen Vrancx, 1622

Winter scene of skaters, an ice-boat and a sleigh on a frozen canal before a brick town, painted in 1611.

Landscape with Frozen Canal, Skaters and an Ice-Boat

Adam van Breen, 1611

Panoramic painting of a harbor city with ships on a strait, domed mosques, and red-roofed buildings under a warm sky.

View of Constantinople (Istanbul) and the Seraglio from the Swedish Legation in Pera

Antoine van der Steen, 1770

Oil sketch of a narrow street with a man standing at left and a rider in a red cloak on a grey horse at right.

Orental Street

Marius Bauer, 1911

Painting of a narrow city alley with dark house walls, red roof edges, and two women in white head coverings walking.

Neighborhood Street in The Hague or Scheveningen

George Hendrik Breitner, 1880

Engraved panorama of a busy harbor with tall ships, rowing boats, and a church-spired city skyline under clouds.

View of Amsterdam

Pieter van den Berge, 1685

Two advertisement cards: City-Magazijn Amsterdam with an envelope motif, and Tanel's Prima Indiano with an ink bottle illustr

Advertisements for City-Magazijn Amsterdam and Tanel's Prima Indiano

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Engraved frieze with a winged sphinx, lion and wolf heads, a cherub with garland, and floral scrollwork.

Part of frieze on fireplace in Council Chamber of the City Hall on the Dam

Hubert Quellinus, 1663

Pen drawing of a street scene with men carrying a pole and a cage, and figures near a building with windows.

Street scene with working men and playing boys

Moses ter Borch, 1656

Photograph of Temple Square in Salt Lake City showing the domed Tabernacle and a stone building with towers beside a tree-lin

Gezicht op Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah

Charles Roscoe Savage, 1883

Hand-colored print of a formal garden with parterres, a fountain, an obelisk and elegantly dressed strollers under trees.

Gezicht op het Grand Canal in de tuin van het Château de Sceaux

John Tinney, 1700