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idmap_24
title[Voorne & Putten] "Ringh van Putten"
makerDaniel Schellincx en Bernard de Roy
date1700
sizeHeight 96 cm. x Width 122,5 cm.
condition4 sheets joined, generous margins, some professionally made reinforcements & repairs. Some unobstrusive surface dirt, all in all a bright and strongly printed copy of a rare, finely coloured map.
colouringFine overall period colouring.
descriptionA superlative map, from the polder "Putten" close to Rotterdam, later to become; "Voorne-Putten". Surveyed by Daniel Schellincx in the year 1617 ,now in a reduced version made by Bernard de Roy on behalf of the Polder authorities. A large compass rose top left, lower left a mile scale, lower right the Coat of Arms of Nicolaas Hooreman, secretary of the Polder-Council , and an elaborately engraved cartouche adorned with finely engraved allegorical figures, giving: "Caerte gemaeckt op ordre vande boven genoemde Heeren Opperdijckgraeff en Hoogheemraden des Rings van Putten, nae de metinge gedaen by Daniel Schellincx, Lantmeeter inden jaere 1617 volgens her origineel nomberboeck ende by my Ondergez. Ingenieur en Lantmeeter op cleynder maat en in deze ordre byeen gebracht inden jare 1700. Bernard de Roy".
 
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