Gezicht op de stad Batavia, Robert Sayer, after I. van Ryne, 1754

Title(s)

Gezicht op de stad Batavia
The city of Batavia in the island of Java and capital of all the Dutch factories & settlements in the East Indies (title on object)
Nederzettingen van de VOC (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1921-693

Catalogue reference

• Sayer 5

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2233

Description

Op de voorgrond de zee.

Artist

• publisher: Robert Sayer (mentioned on object)
• print maker: anonymous
• after drawing by: I. van Ryne

Place

publisher: London
print maker: England

Dating

1754

Material

• paper
• cardboard
• watercolor (paint)

Technique

etching / brush

Measurements

height 278 mm × width 422 mm

What

• city-view in general; 'veduta' (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
• sea (seascape) (+ landscape with figures, staffage)
• sailing-ship, sailing-boat
• rowing-boat, canoe, etc.

Where

• Batavia

Credit line

• J.G. de Groot Jamin Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1921

Copyright

Public domain

• Two hundred and six perspective views adapted to the diagonal mirrour or optical pillar machine, cat.nr. 5