Turmoil and tranquillity

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Location	National Maritime Museum

06 Jun 2008

I was excited to see the exhibition catalogue for the Museum's new art exhibition Turmoil and Tranquillity arrive on my desk this week. The exhibition focuses on Dutch and Flemish painting from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - an era I particularly like - and will showcase our collections plus several significant loans.

I was even more excited to see that it includes a painting by Andries van Eertvelt: The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies - the very same voyage I just wrote my item of the month about.

It's a lovely catalogue - a nice mixture of scholarly essays plus well-written and illustrated catalogue entries. It's just been catalogued and will be on the new books display in the Reading Room from Tuesday, so if you'd like a sneak preview of the exhibition, come and take look.

Renee (Digital Resources Librarian)