Photo, Print, Drawing View of the Island and the City of Batavia Belonging to the Dutch, for the India Company. Vue de l'isle et de la ville de Batavia appartenant aux Hollandois, pour la Compagnie des Indes
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Title
- View of the Island and the City of Batavia Belonging to the Dutch, for the India Company.
Other Title
- Vue de l'isle et de la ville de Batavia appartenant aux Hollandois, pour la Compagnie des Indes
Summary
- This hand-colored engraving of the Dutch colonial capital of Batavia (present-day Jakarta) was created by Jan Van Ryne in 1754. Van Ryne was born in the Netherlands, but spent most of his working life in London, where he specialized in producing engravings of scenes from the British and Dutch colonies. Located at the mouth of the Ciliwung River, Jakarta was the site of a settlement and port possibly going back as far as the fifth century A.D. In 1619, the Dutch captured and razed the existing city of Jayakerta (meaning "glorious fortress" in Sundanese) and built the walled township of Batavia, which became the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The engraving is from the collections of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.
Names
- Ryne, I. van Cartographer.
Created / Published
- London : R. Sayer, 1754.
Headings
- - Indonesia--Jakarta
- - 1754
- - Cityscapes
- - Ports
- - Ships
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: Copperplate engraving, colored; 24 x 38.5 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and the Caribbean Studies KITLV.
- - Content in French.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021669842
Online Format
- compressed data
- image