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View of Cochin

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View of Cochin

Vingboons, Johannes

View of Cochin.

De Stadt en de Reede van Couchyn gelegen op 10 graaden Benoorden den Aequinoctiael.

Bottom left: no.38 [crossed out]. 60.

Top right: Gaig.

Inscribed alongside the church in the centre is Madre de Deos; alongside the churches right St. Franco and St. Joao and inscribed bottom right near the vessels drawn in pencil is: Nederlantsche vloot.

Catalogue number in the De Gaignières catalogue: 6489.

Names are given alongside the church towers. In the foreground the Dutch fleet has been drawn in pencil.

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Sources and literature

Bouchot, Henri, Inventaire des dessins exécutés pour Roger de Gaignières: et conservés aux departements des estampes et des manuscrits (1891)

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