etching was executed, the tongue of land, near there, with the two
bastions, did not yet exist.
23. Bridge called Blaubrug (Blue Bridge) where Rembrandt sketched
the perspective along the Amstel river.
24. Houses on the "Singel" (now Nos. 234-236) where the caligrapher
Lieven Willemsz. Coppenal, an intimate friend of Rembrandt, had his
school, and probably lived.
25. House on the "Keizersgracht" (stated as the second house from
the "Beerenstraat"), where the painter Johan van de Cappelle, a
friend and fervent admirer of Rembrandt, lived until 1663.
26. House in the "Koestraat" (now No. 15), where the same painter
lived after 1663. This house, until then, had been inhabited by the
celebrated musician Sweelinck and his descendants.
27. House on the "Lauriergracht" (probably between the first and
second bridge) where Rembrandt's pupil Govert Flinck lived from
1644, until his death in 1660. Ten years earlier he was staying in
the house of the dealer Hendrick Uylenburgh (see above) where
Rembrandt then also lived.

To locate the houses of some others of Rembrandt's artist-friends and
pupils is more difficult: Ferdinand Bol lived, in Rembrandt's time, on the
"Fluweele burgwal" (i.e., on the map, the left-hand side of the canal
numbered 28), and afterwards in the new extension on the "Keizersgracht"
near the "Spiegelstraat." So did Gerbrand van den Eeckfwut, who died on
the "Heeren-gracht" near the " Viyselstraat." Philips Koninck lived, in
Rembrandt's time, on the "Keizersgracht," the same canal where we found
Tulp and van de Cappelle.

REMBRANDT'S AMSTERDAM

By Frits Lugt

I

[Plate 1. View of Amsterdam from the East. ]

Plate 1. View of Amsterdam from the East. _(reversed)_. After the etching
by Rembrandt

"The city seems to float upon the waters and looks like the sovereign of
the deep. It is crowded with merchants of every nation and its habitants
are themselves the most eminent merchants in the world. It appears, at
first, not to be the city of any particular people, but to be common to
all, as the centre of their commerce. The vessels in this harbour are so
numerous, as almost to hide the water in which they float; and the masts
look at a distance like a forest."

"I gazed, wi