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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Is part of:

Surat Bijapur

Creator

Vingboons, Johannes (land surveyor / mapmaker)

Period

ca. 1665

Material

paper

Technique

watercolour

Kind

drawing

Dimension

44,5 x 60 cm44,5 x 60 cm

Number

VELH0619.105

Owner

Nationaal Archief

Tags

palace, flora, house, building, fauna, ship / vessel, fortification, anchorage / pier / harbour, survey / view

Inscription

Visiapour aan de zijde van de Rivier Mandora

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)