The Cottage on the Hill, Jacob van Ruisdael

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Jacob van Ruisdael, The Cottage on the Hill
Jacob van Ruisdael, The Cottage on the Hill
Jacob van Ruisdael
The Cottage on the Hill
1650s
Jacob van Ruisdael, artist
1628 or 1629–1682
The Cottage on the Hill, 1650s
Where object was made: Netherlands
Material/technique: laid paper; etching
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 7 9/16 x 10 13/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 192.09 x 274.64 mm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 1983.0016
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard The foreground trees growing along a stream in this seventeenth-century etching are probably Willows. These trees from the genus Salix have important medicinal and ecological applications. The anti-inflammatory, fever-reducing action of its bark was known in ancient Greece as well as to Native American peoples. The compound responsible for these medicinal applications is Salicin (whose Latin root is “Salix”), which is chemically similar to aspirin (Acetylsalicylic acid) and has similar effects when metabolized by humans.