View of Bantam, 1602 (Banten [Bantam], Java) 06°02ʹ33ʺS 106°09ʹ39ʺE

Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652) (publisher) [bottom centre:] C J Visscher excudebat.

Johannes Everardus Cloppenburg (active 1600-1603) (dedicator)

Subject(s)

Watermark: The letters 'D N'

Condition: the pattern of fold lines indicates that each sheet was folded separately before being joined. Verso: remains of Mount Type A; no gilt edges

41.4 x 84.8 cm (image and sheet)

cropped (platemark)

Printed title:

Waarachtighe Afbeeldinghe vanden wonderbaren ende ghedenck | waerdighen Scheeps-Strijdt ende Slagh / [not a line ending but a printed character] welcke in Oost=Indien / /[printed character] int ghesichte van de ver=maerde Loopstadt Bantam gheschiet is | tusschen vijf Molucksche soo Schepen als Jachten van Amstelredam: ende de Armade vanden | Grootmachtighen Coningh van Spaengien / [printed character] bestaende in acht groote Galioenen / [printed character] ende twee-en-twintich | Galeyen ende Fusten / [printed character] In welcker toerustinghe de Portugesen eenighe Jaren hebben toeghebracht om door de | selfde Bantam te oberweldighen / [printed character] ende den Coop-handel der Vereenichde Nederlanden in Oost-Indien te verhinderen. [letterpess text pasted to verso]

Inset:

[bottom left, a small-scale map of the Indonesian Islands, oriented with south to top and with a vertical staff marked off in degrees north and south of the equator in a cartouche surmounted by the coat of arms of the Dutch East India Company around which entwine pepper and nutmeg plants, flanked by a mermaid and Neptune:] Ware afbeeldinghe vā alle d’eiijlanden / ende zeecusten ghelee:ghen tuschē de stat / Goa, ende de wijtver:maaerde Moluccen. [Oriented with south to top (compass rose).] Size: 13.3 x 22.1 cm (neatline)

Dedication:

[top left, in a cartouche flanked by coats of arms, on the left, Brabant and on the right, of the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands:] PRUDENTIBVS, HONORANDIS, AC REVERENDIS VIRIS, / NAVIGATIONI INDIÆ ORIENTALIS PRÆFECTIS IN HIS= / CE FŒDERATIS INFERIORIS GERMANIÆ REGIONI= / BVS: NECNON SPECIALIBVS EORVM COLLEGIIS, QVÆ / SVNT IN HOLLANDIA ZELANDIA ET WESTFRISIA, / Hermānus Alardi, et Johannes Everardj Cloppenburgius merito Dedicarunt. A^o. M.D CIII. 

Annotations:

George III heading: Naval Engagement between the Dutch and Portuguese off Bantam 1602.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top, centre left, brown ink, in the hand of dal Pozzo’s librarian?:] D₂ . [bottom right, black pencil in an early twentieth-century hand:] Dupl in Large H. P [Historical Prints] 27.

George III catalogue entry:

Naval Engagement View of the Naval Engagement between the Dutch and Portuguese off Bantam in the Island of Java, January 1602: by C.I. Visscher. 3 sheets: with a Description. [The same entry appears under the heading Bantam]

Bibliographic reference(s)

M. McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Part II, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps, 3 vols, London 2019, cat. no. 2791