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Jun 15 2011
The Battle of Texel
British / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Encounter between Cornelis Tromp on the Gouden Leeuw and Sir Edward Sragg on the Royal Prince during the Battle of Kijkduin” of 1707 by Willem van de Velde the Younger. This battle occurred on August 21, 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. The painting was created when the artist was seventy-four years old having been born in Leiden to Willem van de Velde the Elder. He moved to London in 1673 into the employ of Charles II. Also patronized by the Duke of York, the future James II, Van de Velde the Younger died on April 6, 1707. This work is 183 cm wide and 114 cm high and is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Reproduction for sale on Zazzle
Jan 17 2011
Blaeu’s 1645 Map of Germany, Germania Veteris, typus
Dutch / Maps and charts / Renaissance - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of the famous map of Germany from Joan Blaeu, published in 1645. This master cartographer followed his father Willem’s craft and published his first work with his father and brother in 1635 when he was 39 years old. After his father’s death three years later, Joan and his brother took over their father’s work and Joan became the official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company. He was elected to the Amsterdam Council in 1654 and in 1662 he reissued his atlas as the Atlas Maior. He died in Amsterdam in 1673.
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