Name: Antique Print-MUSLIM FEAST-BENGAL-INDIA-VOC-Schouten-1775
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Antique Print-MUSLIM FEAST-BENGAL-INDIA-VOC-Schouten-1775

€80.00

XXXVIII – Plate: ‘Rijke schenkagien worden de vorst door sijn heeren en Grooten op Nieuw-jaers-dag vereert.’ (Rich gifts on New Years day by important subjects and nobles to the King of Bengal.) At Agra, the Capital of the Bengal Kingdom in January 1664.

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Description

‘XXXVIII’

Copperplate engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 19,5 x 25,8 cm. (7,7 x 10,2 inch). Image size: 14,8 x 18,8 cm. (5,8 x 7,4 inch).

From: ‘Wouter Schoutens, Reys-Togten naar en door Oost-Indien …’ (Wouter Schoutens travels into the East Indies), 1775 edition with newly engraved plates, published in Amsterdam.

Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘Wouter Schouten’.

Condition: Very good, given age. Original fold as issued General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: MUSLIM FEAST-BENGAL-INDIA-VOC

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