Bird's eye view of Colombo and environs

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Bird's eye view of Colombo and environs

Vingboons, Johannes

Title in the Leupe catalogue (NA): Gezicht in vogelvlucht op (Colombo).

The chart is untitled.

See Atlas Van der Hem XXXIX-4, National Library in Vienna.

Compare a similar image rendered in Baldaeus, 'Beschrijving van Ceylon', Amsterdam 1672, pages 104 and 128.

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Is part of:

Colombo

Creator

Vingboons, Johannes (land surveyor / mapmaker)

Period

ca. 1665

Material

paper

Technique

watercolour

Kind

drawing

Dimension

45 x 63 cm45 x 63 cm

Number

VELH0619.115

Owner

Nationaal Archief

Tags

anchorage / pier / harbour, house, fortification, banderole / cartouche / ornamentation, fauna, guard house / tollbooth, ship / vessel, church / parsonage, flora, bird's-eye view / elevation, elevation / bird's-eye view, building, bridge

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)