Netherlands, Map - Delfland - T HOOGEHEEMRAEDSCHAP van DELFLANT - Copper engraving is printed from the original copper plate, 20th century.
Copper engraving of the overview sheet of the map in 25 parts by Nicolaas and Jacob Cruquius (Kruikius) of Delfland, completed in 1712. All ditches, roads, plots, buildings, towns, villages and polders have been drawn extremely accurately with great attention to detail. This map surpassed everything that had been made as water board maps in the 17th and 18th centuries. It took the brothers 10 years to make this map. Dimensions: printing edge 52 x 60 cm, top 57 x 64 cm. Scale 1: 10,000. Copper engraving is printed from the original copper plate, 20th century. Exceptionally beautiful, sharp print, the back also undamaged.
If the card is picked up, it includes a passepartout and frame, if shipping is desired without a passepartout and frame in a tube.
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Copper engraving of the overview sheet of the map in 25 parts by Nicolaas and Jacob Cruquius (Kruikius) of Delfland, completed in 1712. All ditches, roads, plots, buildings, towns, villages and polders have been drawn extremely accurately with great attention to detail. This map surpassed everything that had been made as water board maps in the 17th and 18th centuries. It took the brothers 10 years to make this map. Dimensions: printing edge 52 x 60 cm, top 57 x 64 cm. Scale 1: 10,000. Copper engraving is printed from the original copper plate, 20th century. Exceptionally beautiful, sharp print, the back also undamaged.
If the card is picked up, it includes a passepartout and frame, if shipping is desired without a passepartout and frame in a tube.