' 't Huis van Spiring', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

' 't Huis van Spiring', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

Carel Allard

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Depiction of the Spiring estate. Part of a series of country estates and pleasure palaces of the Netherlands published by Carel Allard at the end of the seventeenth or very beginning of the eighteenth century.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

' 't Huis van Spiring', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld' 't Huis van Spiring', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld' 't Huis van Spiring', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld' 't Huis van Spiring', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld' 't Huis van Spiring', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

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