Catégorie : Prints & Related Material

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: Pieter van der Aa was a publisher, bookseller, and engraver based in Leiden in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He was not a mapmaker in the technical sense, but he produced many maps and views by adapting earlier French and Dutch sources for large multi-volume…

Confirmed: No Mapmaker: not sure (check Leen) Other states: Top right corner: II deel pag 116 Primary Category: Prints & Related Material Technique: Engraving

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Mapmaker: Habermann, François Xavier (1721-1796) Primary Category: Prints & Related Material Technique: Copper Engraving This state: ca. 1750

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 2018 Description: ''Asia (first column)''nIn Asia was eerst geschapennHet aertse paradys, daer in den eersten mensnWert als een heer gestelt, en laet hem soo verblindennDat hy verloren heest syn heyl en herten wensnWert als een heer gestelt, en laet hem soo verblindennDat…

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: A birds-eye view of the town of Batavia (today's Jakarta) from the sea with a variety of warships and merchant-ships crowded in the harbour. The title and image are shown mirrored (the harbour should be situated on the right). nTranscription of legend from German: Batavia, Die Haupt-Stadt, Festung…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 28/1/2018 Description: Le Breton was the official illlustrator during the famous voyage 1837-1840 of the Astrolabe and Zelée under command of Jules Dumont d'Urville. The scene is either in Singapore harbour (most likely) or Batavia harbour. Astrolabe and Zelée are depicted on the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 2/10/2024 Date Acquired: 19/2/2017 Description: The title of the engraving in English is Bantam, a city located on the island of Java, famous for its trade. Bantam, happy Javanese metropolis, a noble trading city. The view depicts Bantam (today: "Banten") in the Indonesian province of…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 1/10/2024 Date Acquired: 18/6/2014 Description: The engraving is part of a series of twelve ship images titled verscheide Soorten HOLLANDSE SCHEEPEN (link). This series belongs in the larger context of seven series with ship portraits that represent different types of shipsnThe ship is Candia, from the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: 10/4/2013 Description: The engraving was part of series of nine engravings depicting different types of ships. This engraving depicts two Dutch East India ships, both at anchor. The name of the one in the middle, behind the starboard is 'Castricum'. In the left background…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 1/10/2024 Date Acquired: 18/6/2014 Description: In 1584, Jodocus Hondius I fled religious persecution in Ghent (now Belgium) and settled in London. There, he established himself as an engraver, instrument maker, and mapmaker. Three years later, he married Coletta van den Keere, sister of the renowned…