Buurtschap Manen

Around 1770, artists increasingly went out into nature to make realistic sketches. In the elaborate drawings that collectors brought together in encyclopaedic atlases, an attempt was made to retain the feeling of the loose sketch as much as possible. Wybrand Hendriks (Amsterdam, 1744 - Haarlem, 1831) had moved from Haarlem to Ede in 1792. A few years later he became curator of the drawing collection of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. This work was drawn after a visit to the hamlet of Manen near Ede. At the time, neighborhoods were small settlements in a duchy or county. They were not governed by a local deputy of the landlord, but by the'neighbours\\\' themselves. An important part of a hamlet was the'marke\\\' (Middle Dutch for'border\\\'); a bounded piece of land that was jointly owned by the neighbors. The word'gemeente\\\' is derived from the Brabant term for marke:'gemeynt\\\'. This work can be seen until 23 September 2018 in Gelderland Grensland, an exhibition in CODA Museum Apeldoorn that brings together landscape painting from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. An excellent opportunity to travel through the province of Gelderland through masterpieces from four centuries of art history! www.coda-apeldoorn.nl/gg Image: Wybrand Hendriks, Road through the hamlet of Manen near Ede, 1783, black chalk, brush in colors in watercolor, loan from the Rijksmuseum