Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Title:
Makou - Macau
Date:
c1669
Medium:
etching
Size:
21 x 32 cm
Description:
A fine view of the Portuguese enclave of Macao from the sea, with Dutch ships with guns firing in the foreground. Although unsigned, this view was etched by Wenceslaus Hollar for John Ogilby's 'An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces', the first English edition of Johann Nieuhof's account of the embassy. However this state was included in Ogilby's edition of Arnoldus Montanus's 'Asia'.
This view of Macao is based on the Jan Nieuhoff engraving of 1665. It is llustrated in Chater and incorrectly attributed and dated.
Pennington 1157, state i of iii.
Reference
Pennington, Richard A Descriptive Catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607 - 1677. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
P7109 Chater VII.3
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Item Code:
Chater VII.3
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