Album with 116 drawings, primarily of portraits, manufactured in Ceylon is leading a page bound in to sign book of Esaias Boursse says "I fully written Hebbe this slack water boeck on Silon tide has sold aen and my brother to my contentment, the first jannewari 1671. Under the concept of "book mark" can also be a loose collection of drawings will be understood. Most of the drawings were made in Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was known until 1972, while only a few were produced during his short stay at the Cape of Good Hope). The bound 'slack water Boeck consists of twenty unequal sections, where, from a

Album with 116 drawings, primarily of portraits, manufactured in Ceylon is leading a page bound in to sign book of Esaias Boursse says "I fully written Hebbe this slack water boeck on Silon tide has sold aen and my brother to my contentment, the first jannewari 1671. Under the concept of "book mark" can also be a loose collection of drawings will be understood. Most of the drawings were made in Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was known until 1972, while only a few were produced during his short stay at the Cape of Good Hope). The bound 'slack water Boeck consists of twenty unequal sections, where, from a number of incomplete. The sign book contains 116 pages, but at least 34 sheets previously cut. Whether it also contains and where these sheets have remained drawings, impossible to say - perhaps they dive once more. give the two watermarks on paper used by Boursse that the material: most likely came from the Netherlands. Boursse can dubbelfolio blades have taken themselves, but it is also possible that he has been on the outward journey in Batavia or during his stay in Sri Lanka by an employee of the VOC. It appears, in any case clear that he is the large sheets of about 44 x cm. has cut lengthwise and two blade sections folded so that he could easily outside it started. Upon binding, the date thereof is not known, the sheets have been trimmed, lea no longer be complete in a number of cases the drawings. Maybe the collection was in the hands of a child of a later owner, as we see in some awkward sketches and added words. The "slack water Boeck after it was binding not paginated, the numbering of the sheets is relatively recent datum. Manufacturer : artist: Esaias BourssePlaats manufacture: Sri Lanka Date: 1662 - 1670 Physical characteristics: graphite; brown and red chalk, brush and gray material paper parchment side chalk graphite Technique: Brush size: h 16 cm. (Oblong) b × cm. D × cm. Subject When: 1662 - 1670

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