View of Cabo Corso on the Gold Coast

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View of Cabo Corso on the Gold Coast

Vingboons, Johannes

Title in the Leupe catalogue (NA): Gezicht in vogelvlucht op Cabo Corso (Cape Coast) en omgeving van de zeezijde.

View of Cabo Corso on the Gold Coast.

Cart Uan Cabo Corso Geleegen Aende Gout Cust in Guinea.

Notes: this chart forms part of the Vingboons Atlas.

The Swedish and British lodges flank the village of Corso. Several vessels lie off the coast.

Cf. Österreichische Nationalbibiothek , Vienna, Van der Hem inv. nr. 36:23.

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Is part of:

Nassau, fort (Mouri, Ghana) Cape Coast

Creator

Vingboons, Johannes (land surveyor / mapmaker)

Period

ca. 1665

Material

paper

Technique

watercolour

Kind

drawing

Dimension

53,5 x 43 cm53,5 x 43 cm

Number

VELH0619.38

Owner

Nationaal Archief

Tags

tanck / well / watering hole, building, ship / vessel, fortification, flora, church / parsonage

Inscription

Cart Uan Cabo Corso Geleegen Aende Gout Cust in Guinea

Sources and literature

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