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LOW COUNTRIES -- DELFT -- "AFBEELDING der Stad Delft" (also called: "Kaart figuratief van Delft"). Amst., P. Smith, n.d. (1703). Engr. wall plan of Delft, consisting of 28 parts, including the city plan printed on 4 conjoined sheets. The city plan is framed, glazed and under passepartout, the other prints loose as issued. (Partly browned/discold., partly w. traces of previous framing, plan & perspective view laid down on cardboard). NOTE: Dirck Evertsz. van Bleyswijck (1639-1681), was commissioned in 1675 to have a map made with accompanying images of buildings and cityscapes. Only 1 copy of the first edition from 1678 seems to have survived, now in the municipal archive of Delft. Of this second edition only 200 copies were made. The map consists of a city plan, a bird's eye view of Delft, Delfshaven seen from the Maas on top of four family crests of Delft mayors, 22 images of buildings, two maps of Overschie and Delfshaven, and finally a short text with a description of the city of Delft. This plan together with the border prints can be put together to form a monumental wall map of almost four square meters! The map's measurements were taken by surveyor Jacob Spoors, (1595–1677), who would become a particularly important individual in Johannes Vermeer’s network of friends and colleagues interested in exploring the natural world through art, science, mathematics, and optical devices. Johannes de Ram was engaged to engrave the map with five fine cartouches by Romeyn de Hooghe; Coenraet Decker engraved the surrounding pictorial panels.
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LOW COUNTRIES -- DELFT -- "AFBEELDING der Stad Delft" (also called: "Kaart figuratief van Delft"). Amst., P. Smith, n.d. (1703). Engr. wall plan of Delft, consisting of 28 parts, including the city plan printed on 4 conjoined sheets. The city plan is framed, glazed and under passepartout, the other prints loose as issued. (Partly browned/discold., partly w. traces of previous framing, plan & perspective view laid down on cardboard). NOTE: Dirck Evertsz. van Bleyswijck (1639-1681), was commissioned in 1675 to have a map made with accompanying images of buildings and cityscapes. Only 1 copy of the first edition from 1678 seems to have survived, now in the municipal archive of Delft. Of this second edition only 200 copies were made. The map consists of a city plan, a bird's eye view of Delft, Delfshaven seen from the Maas on top of four family crests of Delft mayors, 22 images of buildings, two maps of Overschie and Delfshaven, and finally a short text with a description of the city of Delft. This plan together with the border prints can be put together to form a monumental wall map of almost four square meters! The map's measurements were taken by surveyor Jacob Spoors, (1595–1677), who would become a particularly important individual in Johannes Vermeer’s network of friends and colleagues interested in exploring the natural world through art, science, mathematics, and optical devices. Johannes de Ram was engaged to engrave the map with five fine cartouches by Romeyn de Hooghe; Coenraet Decker engraved the surrounding pictorial panels.
