Antique Print-BAIA TODOS-BRASIL-SUGAR-BATTLE-WIC-Post-Savery-Brosterhuysen-1647

Original etching/engraving on hand laid (verge) paper, with watermark (not visible in every sheet). on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 50.8 x 33.8 cm. The image size is ca. 50.8 x 33.8 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 20 x 13.3 inch. The image size is ca. 20 x 13.3 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Incendia Molarum Praefecture omnium Sanctoru’. (‘Burning the sugar mills of the Baia de Todos os Santos in Brasil/Salvador, ca. 1640/41). It shows several Dutch ships of the West Indian Company (WIC) bombarding Portugese buildings on the coastline. Rare. From Caspar Barlaeus’: ‘Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi gestarum sub praefectura illustrissimi comitis I. Mauritii Nassauiae &c. comitis Nunc Vesaliae Gubernatoris & Equitatus Foederatorum Belgii Ordd. Sub vriaco Ductoris Historia.’, published by Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1647. Ref: Sabin 3408, Muller 1822. Very Scarse. Individual prints from this work are rarely offered as the originating work is rare and extremely valuable. Due to the great fire destroying the Blaeu printshop in 1672 both the book supply and copper plates were lost forever.Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Salomon Savery and Johan van Brosterhuysen after Frans Post. Savery engraved the maritime elements, Brosterhuysen the landscape elements. Salomon Savery (1594-1683) was an engraver from the Dutch artist family Savery. He was born in Amsterdam and died in Haarlem. He travelled to England in 1632. Johan van Brosterhuysen (1596-1650) was a Dutch botanist, engraver, writer and translator. He was known as a ‘dillentante’ in the circles of P.C. Hooft, and made numerous influential friends in his lifetime, among which Caspar Barlaeus and Huygens. Frans Janszoon Post (1612-1680) was a Dutch painter. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of the Americas. He travelled to Brasil at the behest of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau.

Condition: Good, given age. A tear in the right margin, extending into the image (old restoration with contemporary paper on the verso). Original middle fold, as issued, reinforced with paper to the rear. Two small stains (in the lower left of the image, and near the middle fold). Black spot in right part of print in middle. Margins cropped to the image edge. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-BAIA TODOS-BRASIL-SUGAR-BATTLE-WIC-POST-SAVERY-BROSTERHUYSEN

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