Nederlands: S’ LANS WELVAREN
English: The Country’s Prosperity
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Title |
Nederlands: S’ LANS WELVAREN
English: The Country’s Prosperity |
Printer |
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Description |
English: Allegory of the prosperity of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, with, in the background, a general and detailed profile of Amsterdam seen from the IJ, which is filled with sailing ships representing the country’s provinces. Named places and monuments of Amsterdam are ’t Rijsen hooft, Montelbaanstoren, Zuiderkerk, Oude Kerk, Koopmansbeurs, ’tstathuijs, Nieuwe Kerk, Haringpakkerstoren and De Nieuwe stadt. At the top are 4 cartouches with views of Vlissingen, Middelburg, Rotterdam and Enkhuizen (the country’s other most important sea trading places at the time), as well as 6 medallions with the bust portraits of Maurice of Nassau, Joris van Spilbergen, Olivier van Noort, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerck. In the bottom left corner is the printer’s dedication to Maurice of Nassau and, in the bottom right, a dedication to the admiralties of Holland, Zeeland and West Friesland. |
Depicted people |
Maurice of Nassau
Joris van Spilbergen
Olivier van Noort
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
Willem Barents
Jacob van Heemskerck |
Depicted place |
Amsterdam
Vlissingen
Middelburg
Rotterdam
Enkhuizen |
Date |
between 1613 and 1615 date QS:P571,+1613-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1613-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1615-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
copper engraving on four paper sheets |
Dimensions |
height: 520 mm (20.47 in); width: 1,612 mm (63.46 in) dimensions QS:P2048,520U174789 dimensions QS:P2049,1612U174789 |
Collection |
Royal Library of Belgium
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Native name |
Royal Library of Belgium |
Location |
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Coordinates |
50° 50′ 36″ N, 4° 21′ 23″ E |
Established |
21 May 1839 |
Authority file |
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institution QS:P195,Q383931 |
Current location |
Cabinet des Estampes |
Accession number |
S.II 113011 |
Object history |
before 1882 date QS:P,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : in collection of A. G. de Visser circa 1882date QS:P,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 : in collection of Frederik Muller by 1883date QS:P,+1883-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1883-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : in collection of Brussels art collector Auguste Coster 1907: acquired by Royal Library of Belgium from Auguste Coster
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Exhibition history |
Trésors de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Royal Library of Belgium, City of Brussels, 1958, p. 145-146, cat. no. 88, as Apothéose de la marine hollandaise - catalogue |
Inscriptions |
Dedication recto bottom left:
Illustriss. Principi ac Domino, Mauritio D. G. Principi Auriaco Comiti Nassoviæ, Mursiæ Lingæ &c Marchioni Veriæ & Vlissingæ, Federatarum Belgij Provinciarum Archistratego, & totius inferioris Germaniæ Oceani Archithalasso, nobilissimi Ordinis Garteri Equiti, hanc Fœderate Belgiæ prosperrimi rerum status Graphicam Delineationem, D.D. atque consecrat Abrahamus Regius, AKoninck ex.
Dedication recto bottom right:
Nobilissimis ornatissimis, spectatissimisque viris ac Dominis, D. Hollandiæ, Zelandiæ & Westfrisiæ, rerum Maritimarum & Navalium dignissimis Prefectis, hanc, prosperrimi Fœderatarum Belgij Provinciarium status, Graphicam per naves Delineationem, quam humillime consecrat atque dedicat Abrahamus Regius. |
References |
- Muller, Frederik (1882) (in Dutch) Beredeneerde beschrijving van Nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, De Nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen, IV, Amsterdam: Frederik Muller en Co., no. 1285 , p. 400
- De Vries, Adrianus Daniël (1883). "Het Portret van Willem Barentsen". Oud-Holland 1: 112-118. ISSN 0030-672X.
- (in French) (1958) Trésors de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Bruxelles: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, no. 88 , pp. 145−146
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Source/Photographer |
Royal Library of Belgium
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Native name |
Royal Library of Belgium |
Location |
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Coordinates |
50° 50′ 36″ N, 4° 21′ 23″ E |
Established |
21 May 1839 |
Authority file |
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institution QS:P195,Q383931 |
Permission (Reusing this file) |
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse |