Print of Ice Skating Scene on the River Maas in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1855

Antique print titled 'De Maas voor de fabriek te Fyenoord'. Old print depicting an ice skating scene in the Netherlands. This print originates from 'Het...

Antique print titled 'De Stad van Katendrecht gezien'. Old print depicting an ice skating scene in the Netherlands. This print originates from 'Het ijs vermaak op de Maas te Rott...

Antique print titled 'Gezicht op de Harddraverij met Paard en Narreslede, langs de Willemskade'. Old print depicting an ice skating scene in the Netherlands. This print originate...

Antique print titled 'De Vink'. Lithograph of ice skating in Leiden, the Netherlands. This print originates from 'De Stad Leiden: Album bevattende eenige afbeeldingen der voornaamste...

Presenting a glorious piece of original Dutch art, namely, a scene of Dutch ice skating oil on canvas by Van Buiksloot. J. Van Buiksloot was a Dut...

Dutch golf engraving by J. Boydell, Winter. Rare 18th century Dutch golf engraving by J. Boydell depicting Dutchman playing the early form of golf on the ice, titled 'Winter'. The s...

This Winslow Homer woodcut engraving entitled "Skating on the Ladies' Skating-Pond in Central Park, New York", was published in Harper's Weekly in the January 28, 1860 edition. It depicts a large number of men, women and children skating on a recently opened pond in Central Park. At the time of publication of this engraving, Central Park was in the early stages of construction. This engraving documents the very early appearance of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux's masterpiece of landscape design. According to Olmsted, the park was "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century – a democratic development of the highest significance". The people of New York were very proud of the plans for their park. It was stated at the time: "Our Park, which is progressing very satisfactorily under the management of the Commissioners, will undoubtedly be, one of these days, one of the finest place of the kind in the world...Those who saw the Park before the engineers went to work on it are amazed at the beautiful sites which have been contrived with such unpromising materials; all fair persons believe that the enterprise is managed with honesty and good taste." Skating was rapidly rising in national popularity in part due to the opening of Central Park’s lake to skaters on a Sunday in December 1858 with 300 participants. The following Sunday it attracted ten thousand skaters. By Christmas Day, a reported 50,000 people came to the park, most of them to skate. There were rules governing who could use the skating pond. “The Ladies’ Pond...

Amersfoort is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted in capital letters on the lowe...