View of the city and the roads of Antwerp from the 'Vlaams Hoofd'

Seventeenth-cenury landscape artists portrayed the city and countryside as one. The left bank of the Scheldt played a key role in this regard, with the hamlet of Sint-Anna on the right. To the left, farmers work the lands and look after the cattle in the Borgerweertpolder. Citizens relax on the dyke and someone relieves himself in the vegetation. Meanwhile ships take care of local and overseas transport. On Antwerp's skyline we can see: the Kattendijk mills, the herring smokehouse, the Hanzehuis, the Kranenhoofd at the Werf and the Cathedral.