'The Frozen Thames' (1677)
by Dutch painter Abraham Hondius (?-1691)
This image is from Wikimedia Commons.
This paragraph and the above image captured my interest today.
'In the 1600s, caravans of oxen carts laden with metal and hides departed from what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico; traveled 330 miles south; and then crossed over the frozen surface of the Rio Grande into what we know today as Mexico. From 1607 to 1814, citizens in England periodically held huge ice fairs on the frozen Thames River. In 1780, it was so cold that people walked from Manhattan to Staten Island over the frozen New York Harbor.'
'When the Sun Takes a Vacation: The effects of an extended leave'
Evelyn Browning Garriss
The Old Farmer's Almanac 2013
the url for the image of the painting 'The Frozen Thames - 1677' is as follows:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Frozen_Thames_1677.jpg
or this might work:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/The_Frozen_Thames_1677.jpg