Gezicht op een posthuis aan de oever van de Maas Postkaart (serietitel) View of a post house on the banks of the Meuse Postcard (series title) Property Type: picture Item number: : Collection Rijksmuseum 1 (2) Note: Based on present states Rijksmuseum Description : View of the north side of the river with the background a post office oever. Manufacturer : printmaker: Joost van Geel to own design: Joost van Geel Publisher: Jacob Quack (possible) Publisher: Jan Houwens (I) (possible) supervision: Jacob Quack Place manufacture: Rotterdam Dated: in or after 1666 Ph
Gezicht op een posthuis aan de oever van de Maas Postkaart (serietitel) View of a post house on the banks of the Meuse Postcard (series title) Property Type: picture Item number: : Collection Rijksmuseum 1 (2) Note: Based on present states Rijksmuseum Description : View of the north side of the river with the background a post office oever. Manufacturer : printmaker: Joost van Geel to own design: Joost van Geel Publisher: Jacob Quack (possible) Publisher: Jan Houwens (I) (possible) supervision: Jacob Quack Place manufacture: Rotterdam Dated: in or after 1666 Physical characteristics: etching and engra material: paper Technique: etching / engra (printing process) Measurements: sheet: h 148 mm × W 408 mmToelichtingDeze print is originally intended to be part of the so-called Postcard from 1666. Although the year 1665 in the cartouche of the map, seen from archival research that the map was completed until 1666 (see documentation). This card consists of (from top to bottom): - (printed first state of two plates, plates were then halved Where: by second state is printed from four plates) a face on the west side of the Meuse; - a map of the Maas estuary (printed from four plates) with left and right five prints relating to the postal service (probably printed ten sheets, possibly earlier pushed lower plates cut later); - a view of the north side of the river Maas (first is printed on two sheets, plates were then cut in half allowing second condition is printed from four plates); - (possibly) an explanation of the card printing. This map was originally published by Jacob Quack. After he died, the card (and / or component parts thereof) probably issued several times in 1668. Of the three editions of the map of the Maas estuary are certainly known - published by Jacob Quack (his name remains on later editions), 1666; - published by John Houwens (I), probably in 1698 or perhaps even earlier; - an anonymous publication, published after the pu
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