A beautiful etching/aquatint showing a market under a tree on Java, by Jan Poortenaar. Jan Christiaan Poortenaar was a Dutch graphic artist, graphic designer, painter, watercolourist, draftsman, engraver, lithographer, manufacturer of woodcuts, illustrator, author, and publisher. Poortenaar (1886-1958) was mainly self-taught but did receive lessons from Piet Wijngaerdt and Willem Witsen. From 1914-1922 he lived in London, where he made his first major etchings of Trafalgar Square and Waterloo Bride. He worked in the Dutch East Indies until 1924.⁣
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Very suitable for framing. ⁣⁣