Things Seen in Holland
gether with the critical faculty, and they are not slow in telling the artist who has not painted them to their liking that he is “not so clever as the Heer Schilder,” who has been more successful in his portrayal of them.
Among the museums there is one not so well known as the larger ones, although it has a special interest for the visitor, since it is an exact counterpart from cellar to garret of a Dutch burgher's residence in the sixteenth century. It owes its origin to Heer Willem J. Tuyn, the author of “Old Dutch Cities,” and a prominent resident of Edam, who acts as its curator. All the furniture of the period is to be found in it, all articles then in domestic use, tools, odd paintings of still more odd worthies of the time, men and women's wearing apparel, curios from the Dutch East Indies, old maps and charts, primitive
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