Rivier met boten aan de waterkant 1890 - 1946

Cornelis Vreedenburgh made this print, *River with Boats on the Waterfront,* with etching. I love the way he’s rendered the scene. Look at the stillness of the water. Can you feel the quiet? It looks like he took a fine needle to a metal plate, scratching in all those tiny, tiny lines. I imagine him hunched over, squinting, meticulously building up the image bit by bit. Maybe he reworked the plate many times until he was happy with the result. It reminds me of some of Whistler’s etchings. Vreedenburgh is not just showing us a landscape; he's giving us a mood. There’s something so tender and delicate about it. These quiet images, built up from marks on a plate, connect us to other ways of seeing and feeling. They make you want to grab your own materials and start making marks and see what happens!