Print Description
Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper. No watermark.
Sheet size: 23.8 x 36.2 cm (9.5 x 14.2 inch). Image size: 22.4 x 35 cm. (8.78 x 12.52 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
AMSTERDAM, NIEU EYLANDT, FIRE 1670, URBAN DISASTER, FIREFIGHTING, JAN VAN DER HEYDEN, 17TH-CENTURY PRINT, CANAL VIEW, SMOKE, RUINS | PCO-E30-42
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From: Jan van der Heyden (elder and younger), Beschryving der nieuwlyks uitgevonden en geoctrojeerde slang-brand-spuiten, en haare wijze van brand-blussen, Amsterdam, 1690 (plate 6).
Reference: Royal Academy of Arts, London, inv. 10/211; plate 6 of the 1690 edition.
Provenance: With a colletion stam: small circle with the letterig DUBBEL MB = duplicate of the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam (not in Lugt).
Biography engraver: Jan van der Heyden the Younger (1662-1726) was active as an engraver in Amsterdam and collaborated with his father. He contributed plates to illustrated works, including publications on firefighting equipment and urban views.
Biography artist: Jan van der Heyden the Elder (1637-1712) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker and inventor. Renowned for his meticulous cityscapes of Amsterdam, he also invented and improved firefighting equipment, notably the flexible fire hose. His illustrated publication of 1690 documented his innovations in fire engines and methods of extinguishing fires.
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