Floor plans for the new hospital in Nieuw-Amsterdam
Hart, Abraham van der
Title Leupe: Plans, platte gronden, opstanden voor gebouwen voor de nieuwe stad, het gouvernement enz.
This drawing is part of the plans designed by Abraham van der Hart for the Society of Berbice in the years 1779-1781. These are three floor plans for the new hospital which on Van der Hart’s general plan for the new governmental complex on map VEL1662.42, is given as building no. 3. Three floors are shown and all rooms are designated, including the sleeping rooms of the surgeons.
Due to the British conquest of Berbice in March 1781, this plan could not be sent to the Republic immediately. After Berbice had been returned to the Society in 1784, the first plans for a completely new main town at the confluence of the Berbice and Canje Rivers followed in the very next year and Van der Hart’s 1779-1781 project was abandoned altogether.
Scale-bar: 150 Rhineland feet = 12 'strepen'
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