We read and wrote letters in that waiting-room for nearly three hours.
At Gorcum was born, in 1637, Jan van der Heyden, a very attractive painter of street scenes, combining exactitude of detail with rich colour, who used to get Andreas van der Velde to put in the figures.

He has a view of Cologne in the National Gallery which is exceedingly pleasing, and a second version in the Wallace Collection.

I shall never forget his birthplace.
We came into Utrecht in the evening.

At Culemberg the country begins to grow very green and rich: smooth meadows and vast woods as far as one can see: plovers all the way.

The light transfiguring this scene was exactly the golden light which one sees in Albert Cuyp's most peaceful landscapes.
When I was last on this journey the time was spring, and the sliding, pointed roofs of the ricks were at their lowest, with their four poles high and naked above them, like scaffolding.