Holland with her pride, the country's first railway between Amsterdam and Haarlem. The city or village with its church and mill will be swallowed up by the capital by now.
Schelfhout seems to be interested in depicting the industrialisation of the Netherlands in his panoramas; the subject of the steam train in the background indeed occurs more than once in his oeuvre.
The steam train blows pressure steam into the air while the train pulls the wagons.
Meanwhile, life continues quietly in the small hamlet in the foreground. The farmers harvest their hay while their cows graze peacefully in the surrounding meadows. We can even see three painters on the right working in plein-air, a practice dear to Schelfhout, who made a lot of preparatory sketches as he wandered through the country.
Andreas Schelfhout (The Hague, 16 February 1787 - there, 19 April 1870) was a Dutch landscape painter. Schelfhout belongs to the Dutch Romanticism and is known as a forerunner of the Hague School. His paintings strongly met the criterion of the art critics at the time: 'truthfulness'.
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