"Along the streets we met at every turn small wagons drawn by dogs, and laden with huge brass jugs, glistening as bright as a Prussian helmet, and filled with milk, and tidy country women with baskets of eggs and vegetables dangling from yokes on their shoulders. A picturesque sight was the market places on Wednesdays and Fridays. The large, open squares were spotted with brilliant patches of almost every color. Never, I think, could Brussels sprouts appear more green, beets so red, carrots so yellow, cauliflowers so white, or red cabbages so vividly metallic... the very potatoes being as clean as pebbles on a shingle beach. The market women sat in long rows, their white caps looking at a distance like ridges of snow. In front of them were piles of their particolored stores, and between the rows sauntered the servant girls to make their purchases, their sabots clattering against the stones." (Ghent, by Lizzie Lewis)

An Artist's Ramble from Antwerp to Rome (Art Journal, 1853)

A Belgian Day Nursery, by Lady Georgina Vernon (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)

St. Nicholas's Eve in Belgium (Demorest 1879)

In Belgium, the visit of St. Nicholas on December 6 is far more significant than Christmas Day!

Ghent, by Lizzie Lewis (Demorest, 1880)

A Week in the Low Countries (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1880)

How Women Are Employed in Belgium (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1882)

Belgian Girls, by Darley Dale (Girl's Own Paper, 1884)

A Belgian Holiday, by William Sharp (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

Flemish Lace and Lacemakers (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1885)

A Printer's Paradise: The Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp, by Theo. L. De Vinne (Century Magazine, 1888B)

Snow Statues, by Thomas E. Curtis (The Strand, 1897B)

Works of icy art in Brussels.

A Procession of Giants, by Emile Dessaix (The Strand, 1898A)

A parade of giant puppets in Belgium.