Tour de Montalban, Amsterdam

 

Maxime Lalanne

  1827 - 1886 (biography)

1884  

etching 

6 1/4 x 9 3/8" platemark; 5-5/16 x 8-1/2" image 

signed in the plate, in image, lower right 

not stated 

titled and dated in plate, in image, lower right 

Villet 2010, no. 140, state iv/iv; Berlasi 105 (listed in Keppel 1909, p. 32); National Gallery of Art accession no. 2021.113.55 

buff Holland laid 

iv/iv 

artist 

24775 

$250.00 

A depiction of the Montelbaanstoren tower in Amsterdam situated on the Oudeschans canal, fishing boats docked in the foreground. Built as part of a defensive wall in 1516, the tower was later slated to become part of the Duke of Alba's castle (ca. 1567), a plan that never came to fruition but nonetheless sparked the local name of Monte Albano Toren (Mont Alban Tower). This name eventually morphed into a combination of dialects to create the word "Montelbaanstoren."