Name: Antique Print-TORNADO-CAYELLE-INDONESIA-VOC-SHIPS-Schouten-1775
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Antique Print-TORNADO-CAYELLE-INDONESIA-VOC-SHIPS-Schouten-1775

€70.00

Plate: ‘Wonderlyke water-optrekkende hosen der wolken, waer door een Hollandts scheepje verongelukt.’ (Miraculous water raising tornado destroying a Dutch VOC ship.) This happened in the Bay of Cayelle, Indonesia, 1660.

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Description

Copperplate engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 21,5 x 25,8 cm. (8,5 x 10,2 inch). Image size: 15,5 x 18 cm. (6,1 x 7,1 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 vertical fold as issued General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: TORNADO-CAYELLE-INDONESIA-VOC-SHIPS

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