This intimate one-room exhibition demonstrated the importance of the artist, Jan van de Velde II (1593–1641), in the context of the Dutch Baroque landscape tradition. Jan van de Velde II is considered one of the most noteworthy Dutch etchers of the first part of the seventeenth century. This exhibition included over fifty prints held in the John Orde Poynton Collection at the Baillieu Library, the University of Melbourne – the most comprehensive collection of van de Velde's series of landscapes in any Australian public collection.
Journeys and Places provided a rare opportunity for contemporary audiences to consider the technical innovations of this body of work as well as the symbolic meaning of the landscape in Dutch art of the period.
Curated by Kathleen Kiernan.
