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Silver 3 florins of the Revolt of the Austrian Netherlands

The Habsburg empire occupied a large part of Europe from the…
50 gulden note

In most countries, designs on banknotes are chosen to repres…
Engraved glass (roemer)

A roemer is a type of drinking glass used for wine, made fro…
Miniature tabernacle, carved in boxwood

This elaborate tabernacle was designed as a portable object …
Rosary bead, carved in boxwood

A rosary bead (sometimes referred to as a 'prayer nut' or 'p…
Adriaen van de Velde, Study of a Cavalier on Horseback, a red chalk drawing

Adriaen Van de Velde (1636-1672) made his numerous red chalk…
Adriaen van Ostade, Peasants Playing Gallet Outside an Inn, pen and brown ink with watercolour

Adriaen (1610-85) and his younger brother, Isack (1621-49), …
Anonymous Netherlandish, Portrait of the Duchess of Gelders and Portrait of the Duke of Gelders, colour woodcuts

These twin portraits are unique surviving impressions. They …
Cornelis Visscher, The Large Cat, an engraving

Together with an etching by Hollar, this is the most famous …
Hendrik Goltzius, Venus, Bacchus and Ceres, a drawing

This dazzlingly beautiful drawing is one of Goltzius' finest…
Jacob de Gheyn the Younger, Allegory on the Equality of all Mankind in Death, a drawing

This drawing is executed in pen and brown ink with a brown a…
Lucas van Leyden, A Young Man Holding a Skull, engraving

Lucas van Leyden constantly experimented with engraving to d…
Master IAM of Zwolle (around 1440-1504), Allegory of the Transience of Life, coloured engraving on vellum

Printmakers during the fifteenth century often produced prin…
Rembrandt van Rijn, An Elephant, a drawing

This is one of several drawings by Rembrandt of female eleph…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Healing the Sick, an etching

This was the most famous of Rembrandt's prints throughout th…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ presented to the People, a drypoint

This imposing image represents a high point in Rembrandt's c…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait with mouth open, a drawing

Rembrandt first drew the face and collar with pen and brown …
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Artist drawing from the model, an etching

This is an unfinished etching, with drypoint and burin . The…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Entombment, an etching

This is one of a series of prints made by Rembrandt in the 1…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Great Coppenol, an etching

The formal pose of this large portrait was probably requeste…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Shell, an etching

Still-life was one of a number of new genres in painting tha…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Star of the Kings, a drawing

This drawing, in pen and brown ink, depicts a Netherlandish …
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Crosses, a drypoint

Rembrandt often retouched his etched plates with a drypoint …
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Trees, an etching

This atmospheric print is widely regarded as Rembrandt's gre…
Set of 12 Delftware plates painted by Sir James Thornhill

Holland was the main centre of production of tin-glazed eart…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Young Woman Sleeping, a drawing

This is an unconventional type of portrait. It is both affec…
Gold solidus of Charlemagne

In the mid- to late eighth century the Frankish kingdom deve…
'Eggshell' porcelain teapot, made by the Rozenburg Factory

This extraordinary teapot was designed by the architect J. J…
Glass goblet, engraved by Frans Greenwood

The colourless glass has an ornamental air bubble, or 'tear'…
Glass vase, designed by Chris Lebeau

This vase is unusual both in its angular shape and in its st…
Maiolica portrait dish

Maiolica is a tin-glazed earthenware. A glaze containing tin…
Watch fitted with sundial and compass, by Coenrad Jacobs

Early watches which indicate anything more than the time of …
Adriaen van Ostade, The Painter, an etching

Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85) is best known for his low-life …
Hendrik Goltzius, Circumcision, an engraving

Goltzius (1558-1616) worked in Haarlem and was a major artis…
Hendrik Goltzius, Self-portrait, a drawing

The medium used for this fine drawing is the traditional Ren…
Hercules Segers, Country Lane with Trees and a Farmhouse, an etching

Segers (1589/90 - about 1638), belonged to the group of Haar…
Hercules Segers, Landscape, an etching

This etching is one of four large landscapes by Segers (1589…
Jacob van Ruisdael, View in Alkmaar with the Grote Kerk, a drawing

The drawing in black chalk with grey wash shows the street b…
Jan van de Velde II, Night, an etching with engraving

Jan van de Velde II (about 1593-1641) was one of the group o…
Lucas van Leyden, Christ Presented to the People, a copperplate engraving

The story comes from John's Gospel (19:5). The Roman prefect…
Lucas van Leyden, Samson and Delilah, a copperplate engraving

The print depicts a scene from the Old Testament story of Sa…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Four Orientals seated under a tree, a drawing

This unusual scene is one of a series of drawings that Rembr…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait in a soft hat, an etching

In 1631 Rembrandt moved from Leiden to Amsterdam in order to…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait leaning on a stone sill, an etching

Rembrandt here portrays himself in Renaissance attire, takin…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Bend in the Amstel, a drawing

This scenic location on the Amstel River at Kostverloren Hou…
Disc-on-bow brooch

This is a gilded copper-alloy disc-on-bow brooch , decorated…
Longcase clock by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

Following the introduction of the pendulum clock by Christia…
Hendrik Goudt, Aurora, an engraving

The signed print is a remarkably close transcription of Elsh…
Maria Sibylla Merian, A Surinam caiman fighting a South American false coral snake, a drawing

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) came from an artistic famil…
Robert van Voerst, Portrait bust of Charles I, an engraving

This large engraving, which reproduces a sculpted bust of Ch…
Silver penny of Louis I 'the Pious'

Louis I, 'the Pious' succeeded his father Charlemagne as kin…
Silver pennies from the Woodham Walter hoard

Little is known of political relations around the North Sea …

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