# View of Delft from the Northwest [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VROOM, Hendrick Cornelisz.]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 71 x 162 cm ## Commentary In this large canvas Delft is seen from the northwest, with the Delftse Vliet in the foreground. This river was the main route for travel to The Hague and from there on to Leiden and other cities to the north. On the horizon the Nieuwe Kerk, the Stadhuis, and the Oude Kerk dominate the view from left to right. Both this painting and Vroom's other View of Delft have been owned by the city of Delft since the seventeenth century. ## Related artworks - [Arrival of a Dutch Three-master at Schloss Kronberg]() - [Battle of Gibraltar]() - [Battle of Haarlemmermeer]() - [Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602 \(detail\)]() - [Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602]() - [The Arrival at Vlissingen of the Elector Palatinate Frederick V \(detail\)]() - [The Arrival at Vlissingen of the Elector Palatinate Frederick V]() - [The Harbour in Amsterdam]() - [The Return in Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies]() - [View of Delft from the Southwest]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()