Depicting the Muiderkring, the group of artists who met at the home of PC Hooft, at the Muiderslot Pictured are Hooft himself with his first wife Christina and their infant son, Vondel, Huygens, Roemer Visscher with his two daughters, Reael, Sweelinck, Samuel Coster and Hugo de Groot They are sitting making music and reciting in the garden of the castle, which can be seen in the background A maid provides them with a bowl of fruit In reality this company could not have met in this composition, The Muiderkring, print maker: Dirk Jurriaan Sluyter, (mentioned on object), after: Moritz Calisch, (mentioned on object), publisher: J.H. Laarman, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1866, paper, etching, engraving, h 95 mm × w 155 mm