Bird's eye view of Ayutthaya

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Bird's eye view of Ayutthaya

Anoniem / Anonymous / Marshoorn, Johannes

Bird's eye view of Ayutthaya.

de Stadt Judia.

Top right: No:1.

Striking is the large number of chedi's, the temple minarets.

Right of centre in the foreground a dromedary is pictured, a fictional element in this picture.

Cf. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, SK-A-4477 and National Archives, inv.nr. VELH0619.62.

Please contact Universiteitsbibliotheek / Universiteit van Amsterdam for reuse and copyrights.

Is part of:

Ayutthaya

Creator

Anoniem / Anonymous (engraver / etcher)

Marshoorn, Johannes (publisher)

Period

ca. 1742

Material

paper

Technique

copperplate printing

Kind

print

Dimension

19,5 x 28,5 cm19,5 x 28,5 cm

Number

O 78 138 deel I, na p. 28

Owner

Universiteitsbibliotheek / Universiteit van Amsterdam

Tags

survey / view, bird's-eye view / elevation, elevation / bird's-eye view, house, ship / vessel, Person, tower, garden / ornamental garden, fence / kraal, fauna, building, banderole / cartouche / ornamentation, pagoda / temple

Inscription

de Stadt Judia

Sources and literature

Struys, Jan Janszoon en Frans Jansz van der Heiden, Drie aanmerkelyke reizen, door Italien, Griekenland, Lyfland, Moscovien [...]: en verscheiden andere gewesten .. Hier is noch by gevoegt Frans Jansz. van der Heiden vervaarlyke schipbreuk van 't Oost-Indisch jacht ter Schelling (1742)