Original antique copper engraving, hand coloured.
“AMSTERDAMS OUDSTE STAAT en bijzondere VERGROOTINGEN door zeverderlei Stippen en Streepen afgebeeld. Te Amsterdam by Is.Tirion 1765.”
Title in column under in the engraving.
The different colours show the growth of the city in the last centuries.
From: Geschiedenis van Amsterdam – second book. by Jan Wagenaar 1765
Published by Isaak Tirion te Amsterdam, bookseller on the Kalverstraat near the Dam.
Literature:
A.E.d’Ailly, Catalogus Amsterdamsche plattegronden Gemeentearchief Amsterdam. Number 296
Kaarten van Amsterdam 1538 – 1865. Number 119 Page 236
Format engraving: 28 x 39,5 cm. (11 x 15,6 inches
Framed in burr-walnut with coloured passe-partout on acid-free paper.
With frame: 46,8 x 58 cm. (18,4 x 22,8 inches.)