Right portion of a chart showing the mouth of the Ganges

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Right portion of a chart showing the mouth of the Ganges

Compostel, Jacop / Vingboons, Johannes

Right portion of a map showing the mouth of the Ganges.

Caarte van de Bocht van Bengala, en forte grande, / naeder ondervonden, met de Jachten Voorburgh, Zouburgh / ende kleen Hollandia door Jacop Compostel, Ao. 1637.

The map was drawn in 1637 by Jacop Compostel and copied between 1665 and 1668, probably in Johannes Vingboons' studio.

The chart is taken from the Blaeu-Van der Hem Atlas.

The chart is the right portion of a larger chart, the other half is located in the ??sterreichische Nationalbibiothek, Wenen, inv. nr. 39:10a.

Please contact Österreichische Nationalbibliothek for reuse and copyrights.

Is part of:

Hougly Baliapal

Creator

Compostel, Jacop (copied after)

Vingboons, Johannes (assigned to)

Period

1665 - 1668

Material

paper

Technique

watercolour

Kind

drawing

Dimension

hele kaart: 56 x 87 cm / entire map: 56 x 87 cmhele kaart: 56 x 87 cm / entire map: 56 x 87 cm

Number

Van der Hem 39:10b

Owner

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Tags

Map/Chart/Plan, compass / dial, banderole / cartouche / ornamentation, shipyard

Inscription

Caarte van de Bocht van Bengala, en forte grande, / naeder ondervonden, met de Jachten Voorburgh, Zouburgh / ende kleen Hollandia door Jacop Compostel, Ao. 1637.

Sources and literature

Krogt, Peter van der, The Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem: of the Austrian National Library (2005)