Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Amsterdam Gabled Houses: Topographic Views
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Accession Number:
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202054
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Order Title:
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Archivision Addition Module NINE--6,173 images
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Type of View:
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partialView
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View Title:
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Baroque (1663) example with neck gable topped with tympanum, elaborate bracket decorations of African slaves, round windows and swags
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Date of View:
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8/23/2013
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Image description:
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A merchant's house located on the Oudezijds Vooburgwal, number 187, built in 1663 in the style of architect Philips Vingboons. The African figures on the brackets, holding tobacco, announce that this family fortune came from the slave trade to the Americas.
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Image Rights:
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¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Source Institution:
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Archivision, Inc.
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Collection:
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Addition Module NINE
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Culture:
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Dutch
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Subject:
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Restoration and conservation
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Work Types:
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visual works; topographical views
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Preferred Title:
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Amsterdam Gabled Houses: Topographic Views
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Agent Display:
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Scott Gilchrist (Canadian photographer, born 1960)
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Date:
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photographed 2013 (creation)
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Materials:
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digital images
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Technique:
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photography
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Locations:
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Amsterdam, North Holland , Netherlands
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Location Type:
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(creation)
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Style/Period:
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Baroque
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Style/Period:
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Seventeenth century
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Style/Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Classification:
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Architecture
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Classification:
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Urban Design and City Planning
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