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This landscape represents the river Lek with a rowing boat and cattle ferry, and Liesvelt Castle in the distance.
Liesvelt Castle stood on the south bank of the river Lek between Groot Ammers and Gelkenes. It was raised up in 1042, and it was demolished in 1740. It appears Ruysdael appreciated the picturesque qualities of this structure, for it recurs in a number of his other imagined river scenes.
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