Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Nieuhoff, Jan
Title:
Macau - Makou
Date:
1665
Medium:
copper engraving
Size:
19 x 29 cm
Description:
View of Macao from the Outer Harbour showing the arrival of the Dutch ships of the Embassy of the Dutch East India Company from Batavia to the Emperor of China, 1655. From Nieuhoff's book :-' "Embassy of the Dutch East India Company to the Grand Tartar Cham", published originally in Latin in 1665. The Embassy started from Batavia and reached Canton in 1655, proceeded to Peking and returned to Java in 1657.
This was the earliest view of Macau in the Chater Collection.
The Dutchman Jan Nieuhoff accompanied the Dutch mission to China from Jakarta in 1655. Nieuhoff provided an account of the embassy which was published by Van Meurs’ in Amsterdam in 1665. It contained a map and some of the earliest illustrations to appear in Europe of the Chinese hinterland and interior and of China and its Cities. It was the most important European source of information about China in the seventeenth century. His work proved exceptionally popular, being translated into French, German and English in the following years.
Chater - Macao No.1.
References:
Views of the Pearl River Delta: Macau, Canton and Hong Kong Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1996 - Illustrated page 63.
P5071 Chater VII.1
References:
Item Code:
Chater VII.1
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