Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Very Good
Dealers ID No.: 19231
Description: The view is engraved by Mathias de Sallieth, after a drawing by Hendrik Kobell Jr from 1772.nIt depicts shipyard at the island of Onrust (Unrest) in Batavia (today Jakarta), one of the VOC's heavily fortified strongholds in the Bay of Batavia. The island primarily served as the VOC's shipyard for the massive naval needs of the VOC. East Indiamen were careened and repaired here, but it also had a gunpowder magazine, and a lot of warehouses for spices and fresh water storage. It had reservoirs for trees, processed by sawing windmills to produce ship planking. There was also a smithy to serve the shipyard. Near the waterfront were special cranes to pull ships on their side for careening and repairs. Sometimes small ships were built for local use. The island had developed into a small town protected by a fortress of five bastions. VOC employees were only allowed to leave the island twice a year. Onrust became the largest and most important shipyard in the Indies between 1614 and 1795. The name is said to come from the island's working conditions where the repair and maintenance of ships provided a never-ending workflow for carpenters, allowing them no rest.nA large ship of the line leans onto its starboard side in the background. Another one sails toward the port in the right foreground. Men on the boats engage in various activities such as rowing and working on ships. A small vignette of scattered shipbuilding tools surrounding a standing sword enclosed by a wreath divides the Dutch text.
First published: Separate publication: Amsterdam, Hendrik Kobell Jr,
Mapmaker: Sallieth, Mathias de (1749-1791)
Notes: Yes
Primary Category: Prints & Related Material
Sheet size (cm): 17.5×28.2
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1782
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