This is what road conditions were like in Europe from the fall of Rome until the 19th century. The painting is A View On A High Road by Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709), a Dutch landscape painter a pupil of the better-known Jacob van Ruisdael. High Road was the term for a major thoroughfare. Macadam and asphalt were a really big deal when they were introduced a couple of centuries later (see Forgotten Americans: Jacob de Smedt & Nathan B Abbott).
Like the art. That reminds me, our country driveway needs attention! dm
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