print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.7141
- Title
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Object: Het Posthuis (The post-house)
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Series: The Mail Service between Holland and the Indies
- Description
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Plate 4: Coastal scene with the post-house on a beach at centre, the postilion looking outside a window through his telescope, two flag-poles outside the house, several sailing ships in background; first state with number; illustration to Jacob Quack's "Postcaert" (Rotterdam: 1665)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1665 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 145 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 282 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of ten, for comment see S.7134. This is first state before title, for other impressions see S.7139-7140; for second state see also S.7138 and S.7144-7145.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Postcaert (Rotterdam, 1665)
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.7141
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.7141