A wooded path at Treslong, near Hillegom

Jurriaan Andriessen spent much of his career producing decorative wall-coverings, the precursor to modern wallpaper, for interiors predominantly in the Amsterdam area. The ephemeral nature of these works means that few finished examples survive, though the Rijksmuseum holds a large number of the original designs. Such work evidently necessitated travel, and in 1789 he visited the area near Hillegom, a municipality to the south of Haarlem, three times. Treslong, a country estate built circa 1560 by the Bloys van Treslong family, was owned at this date by the Van den Ende family, one of whom was a pupil of Andriessen's. There are two other drawings of the estate produced by Andriessen on the same day as the present one, both held in the Noord-Hollands Archief, one depicting a man milking a cow with the coast in the background, and the other of two small figures in a wooded landscape (inv. NL-HlmNHA_53003530_K and NL-HlmNHA_53003531_K). The estate is now owned by the municipality of Hillegom, though the house no longer survives.