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entirely unknown to the South of Europe - the view from the Tower like all other views from high places that I have ever seen did not repay me for the fatigue of getting up to it. We went to see the house Rembrandt once owned & lived in - with his name over the door - & a very fine statue of him erected in 1851 - In the Museum we saw a great many fine pictures, nearly all of the Dutch School - the finest I ever saw was by Van der Heist "The City Guard of Amsterdam met to celebrate the Treaty of Munster, 1648 - altogether a collection of the most life like & expressive portraits imaginable.
Gerard Dou's "Night School" is remarkably fine - I had frequently seen copies of it - there was a beautiful shepherdess - by I forget whom - & some landscapes very good -
Some copies of Titian, Rubens & Raphael - We drove through the best street for private residences & to the fashionable promenade - "long & shady" - thence to the Zoological Garden where we were very much interested - we left
Part of Jane Bigelow Diary, 1859-1860