The Mint Tower, Amsterdam
HOLLAND
By DWIGHT L. ELMENDORF
Lecturer and Traveler
THE MENTOR · DEPARTMENT OF TRAVEL · MAY 1, 1914
MENTOR GRAVURES
- [THE RYKS MUSEUM], AMSTERDAM
- [VEEN KADE], THE HAGUE
- [STREET SCENE], ROTTERDAM
- [STREET SCENE], AMSTERDAM
- [MONTALBANS TOWER], AMSTERDAM
- [SCENE IN HAARLEM]
Holland has been described as a “country of unpainted pictures.” That is the artist’s point of view; for his eye takes in the picturesque possibilities of the subject. To us it seems as if Holland is of all countries the one most often seen in pictures. While, no doubt, there are many “untouched pictures” in the miles of level Dutch landscape, art has surely shown a generous recognition of Holland’s attractive scenery, and has celebrated its picturesqueness to all the rest of the world. Holland is a country of dikes and level meadow lands, of windmills and canals. From the point of view of an aëronaut the Dutch cities look like a map of Mars. This is especially true of Amsterdam, which, viewed from above, appears to be a network of canals. These canals are an attractive feature of the cities. In some cases the whole street is canal; in other cases the street is both “wet and dry”—a canal flanked by a street.
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“THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD,” THE HAGUE