Simon de Koster

Simon de Koster’s prints show the everyday life he saw from his printshop window in early 1800s Amsterdam, traders shouting in the canals, wet cobblestones reflecting their hats, dogs sniffing cartwheels. What sticks is how he caught the city mid-breath: not grand events, but the quiet, smudged ink of a sailor’s sleeve or the way smoke curled from a bakery chimney. Slide into Gallery Tiles to hunt for his “H Beard Print Collection, 10th February 1802” and watch a whole street wake up in black and white.