Period:Unknown Production date:1596
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, engraving,
Subjects:traveller/travel boat/ship costume/clothing
Dimensions:Height: 535 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each album page) Width: 395 millimetres
Description:
A collection of prints from an edition of Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s “Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert” (first published Amsterdam, 1596), assembled by François Fossard and pasted into an album; including portrait frontispiece and titlepage vignette by Lambert Cornelisz, and 19 plates by Joannes and Baptista van Doetecum after van Linschoten’s drawings of the following subjects (described according to New Hollstein): couples from the town of Malacca [Malaya] and from the Island of Jawa; two couples from the Kingdom of China; Mandarin partying on the river and Mandarin receiving a petition; Chinese junk with rattan sails and wooden anchors; the daily market of Goa; three portuguese men, so-called Casados and Soldados, with their servants; Portuguese nobleman on horseback with servants; rich and well born Portuguese man in palanquin with servants; West Indian warship with Portuguese commander and Malabar boatman and crew; Portuguese maiden, married woman and widow in public dress and Portuguese or Mestizo woman in house dress; Portuguese woman in uncovered palanquin with servants; Portuguese woman in covered palanquin with servants and wet-nurse; Portuguese couple with servants on their way to church at night; merchant from Deccan (Mercador), merchant from Cambaia in Gujurat and Brahmin couple; wedding procession in the Deccan (Balaghat) behind Goa; the ambassador of the King of Bijapur in palanquin with servants; peasant couple with children from the countryside around Goa (Canarim), West Indian soldier (Lascaryn) and dancing Indian girl (Balhadeira); village scene from the countryside around Goa; dugouts and planked crafts used in coastal shipping from Goa and Cochin. In addition to the identified prints by Cornelisz. and the Doetecum, are two further prints: an unlettered plate bearing coat of arms with lions rampant and ornamental strap-work border, and a vignette showing Magellan’s ship (see inscription). Etching and engraving
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Comments:For a loose impression of the portrait of van Linschoten, see 1867,1012.389.For other loose impressions of plates from the “Itinerario,” see 1874,0808.1622; 1881,0611.311; and 1874,0808.1623.For the other works assembled by Fossard into this album, see 1947,0319.8 to 26; 1947,0319.8.25; 1947,0319.8.13 to 24; and 1947,0319.8.1 to 12.
Materials:paper
Technique:etching, engraving,
Subjects:traveller/travel boat/ship costume/clothing
Dimensions:Height: 535 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each album page) Width: 395 millimetres
Description:
A collection of prints from an edition of Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s “Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert” (first published Amsterdam, 1596), assembled by François Fossard and pasted into an album; including portrait frontispiece and titlepage vignette by Lambert Cornelisz, and 19 plates by Joannes and Baptista van Doetecum after van Linschoten’s drawings of the following subjects (described according to New Hollstein): couples from the town of Malacca [Malaya] and from the Island of Jawa; two couples from the Kingdom of China; Mandarin partying on the river and Mandarin receiving a petition; Chinese junk with rattan sails and wooden anchors; the daily market of Goa; three portuguese men, so-called Casados and Soldados, with their servants; Portuguese nobleman on horseback with servants; rich and well born Portuguese man in palanquin with servants; West Indian warship with Portuguese commander and Malabar boatman and crew; Portuguese maiden, married woman and widow in public dress and Portuguese or Mestizo woman in house dress; Portuguese woman in uncovered palanquin with servants; Portuguese woman in covered palanquin with servants and wet-nurse; Portuguese couple with servants on their way to church at night; merchant from Deccan (Mercador), merchant from Cambaia in Gujurat and Brahmin couple; wedding procession in the Deccan (Balaghat) behind Goa; the ambassador of the King of Bijapur in palanquin with servants; peasant couple with children from the countryside around Goa (Canarim), West Indian soldier (Lascaryn) and dancing Indian girl (Balhadeira); village scene from the countryside around Goa; dugouts and planked crafts used in coastal shipping from Goa and Cochin. In addition to the identified prints by Cornelisz. and the Doetecum, are two further prints: an unlettered plate bearing coat of arms with lions rampant and ornamental strap-work border, and a vignette showing Magellan’s ship (see inscription). Etching and engraving
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Comments:For a loose impression of the portrait of van Linschoten, see 1867,1012.389.For other loose impressions of plates from the “Itinerario,” see 1874,0808.1622; 1881,0611.311; and 1874,0808.1623.For the other works assembled by Fossard into this album, see 1947,0319.8 to 26; 1947,0319.8.25; 1947,0319.8.13 to 24; and 1947,0319.8.1 to 12.
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