# Ferry Boat [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VELDE, Esaias van de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 62 x 113 cm ## Commentary Between 1607 and 1640, entrepreneurs and engineers drained vast lakes in the province of Holland, thus creating acres of new arable land. New villages sprung up in these low-lying "polders," protected only by dikes and pumps, driven by the readily available wind power of the flat countryside. At the same time, entrepreneurs created an efficient system of transportation along rivers and canals, as this painting of Esaias van de Velde attests. ## Related artworks - [Bandits Attacking a Caravan of Travellers]() - [Battle Scene in an Open Landscape]() - [Ferry Boat \(detail\)]() - [Ferry Boat \(detail\)]() - [Garden Party before a Palace]() - [Landscape]() - [Merry Company Banqueting on a Terrace]() - [Riders on a Path between Ruins and a High Bank]() - [The Joy of Ice on a Frozen Canal near a Walled Town]() - [Traveller and his Pack Horse]() - [View of Zierikzee]() - [Winter Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()