print
- Museum number
- 2AA+,a.43.116
- Title
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Object: Hur in Caldea nu gheheeten Hurcasdyn by Aleppo
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Series: Views from Arabia, Judea, Chaldea, Syria, Jerusalem, Antiochia, Aleppo, Mecca etc.
- Description
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View of Urkesh in Chaldea; landscape with a caravan in central foreground, a river at left, a city with large buildings in the background, surrounded by city-walls; letters A-F within composition indicating locations; after Jan Peeters. 1672
Etching
- Production date
- 1672
- Dimensions
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Height: 120 millimetres
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Width: 265 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of fourteen plates showing views from the Middle East after drawings by Jan Peeters, published by Jacob Peeters. For the full set see 2AA*,a.43.108. 2AA*,a.43.108-2AA*,a.43.121. For a comment on the entire set see 2AA*,a.43.108.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2AA+,a.43.116