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DUTCH SCHOOL, LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY Novum Amsterodamum (New York).
Pen and black ink and brown wash and pencil on cream laid paper mounted on card stock. 265x305 mm; 10 1/2x14 1/2 inches. Titled "NOVUM AMSTERODMUM" in ink on the cartouche upper center recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey.
This very early view of New York, showing the small settlement of New Amsterdam, located on the southern tip of Manhattan, was likely based on an engraving of the same view included in Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land, Amsterdam, 1671 (see Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, New York, 1915, volume I, page 136, plate 6). The drawing considered the original study, now at the New York Historical Society, for the engraving, an impression of which with hand coloring in watercolor is included in this lot, is thought to be by Laurens Hermansz Block, a Dutch artist who visited New York in 1650 aboard the merchant vessel Lydia.
