3 views of houses demolished to make place for the new "Nationalestraat" in Antwerpen.

3 drawings, graphite pencil, 10,3 x 17 cm (sheets extracted from a sketchbook, foxing).

Glued by upper edge under passe-partout.

De Braekeleer (Antwerp 1840-1888) was a privileged witness to the renovation of the city's filthy old districts, home to centuries-old pestilences, of which the famous "Luizenmerkt" [lice market], was the archetype specimen.
Versos: Sketch of a farm, tower of a church, panorama of Mol.