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View of Visiapour (according to the title), depicted is Suratte

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View of Visiapour (according to the title), depicted is Suratte

Vingboons, Johannes

Title in the Leupe catalogue (NA):Gezicht op ,,Visiapour aan de zijde van de rivier Mandora''.

A view of the city of Visiapour with on the left several houses, on the right is the city wall with behind it the castle.

Top the inscription Visiapour aan de zijde van de Rivier Mandora.

Depicted is not Visiapour, but the city of Souratte.

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Sources and literature

Zandvliet, K., Mapping for Money: Maps, plans and topographic paintings and their role in Dutch overseas expansion during the 16th and (1998)

Gossselink, Martine, Land in Zicht: Vingboons tekent de Wereld van de 17de eeuw. (2007)