Sports on the Amstel

'Procession on the Rokin with mock naval fights. Several small vessels in foreground, a boat with trumpeters in right foreground, a large crowd onlooking from the river-banks in background and from a bridge at left, a classical building on an island at right' -- British Museum. Plate 14 from fête book commemorating the royal entry into Amsterdam of Marie de Medici, the exiled Queen Mother of France (1575-1642), in 1638. From: Caspar Barlaeus, 'Medicea Hospes' (Amsterdam: 1638). 'Procession on the Rokin with mock naval fights. Several small vessels in foreground, a boat with trumpeters in right foreground, a large crowd onlooking from the river-banks in background and from a bridge at left, a classical building on an island at right' -- British Museum. Plate 14 from fête book commemorating the royal entry into Amsterdam of Marie de Medici, the exiled Queen Mother of France (1575-1642), in 1638. From: Caspar Barlaeus, 'Medicea Hospes' (Amsterdam: 1638).