Antique Print-MAP-HAARLEM-NORTH HOLLAND-NETHERLANDS-COAT OF ARMS-Boxhorn-1632

Description

This print shows a map of Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands, with the city coat of arms at the top left.

Made by after an anonymous artist.

Medium: Engraving on handlaid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 27.8 x 20.7 cm (10.94 x 8.15 inch). Image size: 22 x 15.5 cm. (8.66 x 6.1 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Little brownish on two edges. Diagonal fold. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MAP-HAARLEM-NORTH HOLLAND-NETHERLANDS-COAT OF ARMS | RBOS-A9-17

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was published in Theatrum Sive Hollandiae Comitatus et Urbium Nova Descriptio, Amstelodamum, page 96, in 1632 by Hendrik Hondius (1597-1651). On the reverse page 95 there is a description in Dutch of Tonneel van Holland.

Provenance: On the reverse the text in Dutch: “Haarlem A1120, a.m. van den Broek”. Collectorsstamp in circle vd B.

Biography engraver: Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (1612-1653).