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View of Loanda

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View of Loanda

Post, Frans / Brosterhuisen, Jan van / Blaeu sr., Joan

View of Loanda.

Loanda S. Pauli.

The plate is taken from the Blaeu-Van der Hem Atlas, but was originally included in Caspar Barlaeus, 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia Gestarum Historia', Amsterdam 1647. See also Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, inv. nr. 1043 B 14, after p. 204 no. 471.

Bottom right: no: 471.

Key: A. Iesuitarum Coenobium. / B. Capucinorum Coenob. / C. Turris sive reductus. / D. Castrum Novum Sibyllae. / E. Castrum Vincentij. / F. Suggestus tormentarij. / G. Coenobum Urbis inferioris. / H. Castrum Centurionis Benti. / I. Castrum novum eiusdem. / K. Castrum S. crucis. / L. Castrum maritimum ubi nostri appulerunt. / M. Mare. / N. Locus designate Arcis a??erende urbi. / O. Naves Lusitanis creptae.

Cf. National Archives, The Hague, inv. nr. VELH 619.64 and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, inv. nr. 185 B 11 deel I, after p. 596 and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. nr. NG-20-E.

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Sources and literature

Barlaeus, Caspar, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia: et alibi nuper gestarum, sub præfectura illustrissimi comitis I. Mavritii [...] historia (1647)

Krogt, Peter van der, The Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem: of the Austrian National Library (2005)