[851] Her works were issued in 1528, 1540, and 1567.
[852] Cp. Mr. Gosse's article on Dutch literature, in Ency. Brit. 10th ed. vol. xii.
[853] As to this see Cerisier, vi, 267.
[854] Van Kampen, i, 607, 608; ii, 106; Motley, United Netherlands, iv, 570.
[855] Wenzelburger, i, 54.
[856] Motley, United Netherlands, iv, 556.
[857] At 1829 it was only 2,613,487.
[858] Some of course were destroyed by various causes. Rubens's "Descent from the Cross" at Antwerp, though repeatedly retouched, was ruined when Reynolds saw it; but the number of good pictures preserved in the Low Countries is immense.
[859] In 1833 there were 2,270,959 hectares of land = 8,768 square miles. In 1877 there were 3,297,268 hectares = 12,731 square miles—the result of systematic reclamation from sea and river.
[860] Population in 1897 slightly over 5,000,000; at the end of 1910, 5,945,155.