Gezicht op de Waag op de Nieuwmarkt te Amsterdam D' Oude St Antonis Poort nu de Waegh (titel op object) View the Waag at the Nieuwmarkt (St Anthony Square), also known as the St. Anthony Waag, Amsterdam. Seen from the Geldersekade. Left in the background the tower of the Zuiderkerk. This venture was established in the former First St. Anthony's Gate. The fifteenth century building came after the urban expansion from the end of the sixteenth century to be within the city and lost its function as a city gate. In 1617-1618 it was converted into waag. Manufacturer : printmaker Jan Veenhuysen (attr
Gezicht op de Waag op de Nieuwmarkt te Amsterdam D' Oude St Antonis Poort nu de Waegh (titel op object) View the Waag at the Nieuwmarkt (St Anthony Square), also known as the St. Anthony Waag, Amsterdam. Seen from the Geldersekade. Left in the background the tower of the Zuiderkerk. This venture was established in the former First St. Anthony's Gate. The fifteenth century building came after the urban expansion from the end of the sixteenth century to be within the city and lost its function as a city gate. In 1617-1618 it was converted into waag. Manufacturer : printmaker Jan Veenhuysen (attributed to) Publisher: Marcus Willemsz. By Nick (possible) Place manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1664 Material: paper Technique: etching / engra (printing process) Measurements: sheet: h 116 mm (inner plate edge cut off) × W 137 mm (partly cut within panel edge) Remarks Present state of print also used in: Fockens Melchior. Description Der devotes-renowned Sale stadt Amstelredam, from its first principles, the zedert Jare 1203. Privileges old, verscheyde Increase Inge Old Privileges and verscheyde Increase Ingen (...). 3rd edition. Amsterdam: Marcus Willemsz. By Nick, 1664. And: Zesen, Philipp von. Beschrybung der Stadt-Weidtberuhmde Kauffman Amstelredam / Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam darinnen derselben von ersten Zustand ursprunge bis auf gegenwartigen (...). Amsterdam: Marcus Willemsz. By Nick, 1664. Second is known (in addition French title) used in: Domselaer, Tobias and Isaac Commelin. Beschrye Amsterdam: her first original q uyt Huyze of the lords of Aemstel and Aemstellant (...). 6 parts. Amsterdam: Marcus Willemsz of Doornick, 1665. Third-known state (right numbered 40) also used in several later seventeenth and eighteenth century publicaties. Subject: weigh-house city-gate parts of church exterior and annexes: towercanals, water (in city ) (+ city (-scape) with figures, staffage) Where: Waag on the Nieuwmarkt Geldersekade Zuiderkerk
Size: 1683px × 1484px
Photo credit: © Art World / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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