Antique Print of the Kodungallur Fortress by Van Schley, 1755

Antique print titled 'Grondtekening van de Fortresse Cranganor, met de buyten-werken, en 't Project van een nieuwe Schans, Gedaan in 't Jaar 1709'. Floor plan of the Kodungallur Fortress, India. Kottappuram Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1523 was referred to popularly as Cranganore Fort and is now known as Kodungallur Fort. It was captured and destroyed by the Dutch in 1663. The Fort had a strategic position, on the mouth of the river Periyar before it joins the Arabian Sea, which gave it the advantage of controlling the ships and boats...

Antique print titled 'Vue de la Batterie Anjol - Gezigt van de Battery Anjol'. View of the fortress of Ancol, located near Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia. This print originates from th...

Antique print titled 'Pagode de Toranga - Pagode van Toranga'. Old print depicting the pagoda of Toranga, Japan. This print originates from 'Histoire générale des Voyages' by A. Prév...

Antique print titled 'Pagode de Canon - Pagode van Canon'. Old print depicting the pagoda of Canon, Japan. This print originates from 'Histoire générale des Voyages' by A. Prévost.

Antique print titled ‘Pagoda de Toranga - Pagode van Toranga‘. This print depicts the pagoda of Toranga, Japan. Originates from a Dutch edition of 'Histoire générale des voyages' by ...

Antique print titled ‘Pagoda de Toranga - Pagode van Toranga‘. This print depicts the pagoda of Toranga, Japan. Originates from a Dutch edition of 'Histoire générale des voyages' by ...

Forteresse de Tyen Tsing Wey, tiree de Nieuhof Published ca 1755. Fine hand colour. Rare original copper plate engraved antique print the Fortress (long ago demolished) guarding the cross roads of the meeting of the major rivers in Beijing (Peking) by Jakob van Schley - after Nieuhoff - in 1755 and published in Antoine François Prevost’s 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyages written by Prevost & other authors between 1746-1789. Several major rivers, including the Yongding, Chaobai, Juma and Wenyu flow through Beijing Municipality. They originate in the highlands of Hebei and Shanxi, cut through the mountains west...

'Carte du Chemin entre Samarang et Cartasoera, kaart van den weg tusschen Samarang en Cartasoera' Map of the Road between Semarang and Kartasura by Van Schley. Published 1763. ...

Wonderful image of John the Baptist after Van Eyck Chromolithograph Printed on card Published C.1870 Unframed.

Botanical Print of Helianthus Californicus Insignis, The Californian Sunflower, Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, Louis van Houtte. (1810-1...

Antique hand colored riverscape / landscape copperplate engraving based on a painting by Jacob Maurer and engraved by Paul Fourdrinier - A View of Westminster Bridge from Lambeth, published according to Act of Parliament 1754 for Stowe’s Survey of London. BIO: Paul Fourdrinier sometimes referred to as Peter or Pierre Fourdrinier, was an 18th Century engraver in England. Paul Fourdrinier, engraver and printseller, was born on 20 December 1698 in Groningen in the Netherlands, the son of Jacques Fourdrinier and his wife, Jeanne Theroude, Huguenot refugees from Dieppe, Normandy. He was a pupil of Bernard Picart at Amsterdam for six years, and came to England in 1720. He was employed in engraving portraits and book illustrations. He also engraved two works by Peter Monamy, marine paintings displayed in Vauxhall Gardens. The engravings were published in 1743, but may have been executed earlier. Starting in 1742 Fourdrinier produced a series of books consisting of numerous folding charts showing "The Succession of Colonels to all his Majesties Land Forces from their Rise to 1742", as well as many other details of British military and naval personnel. The 2004 edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography makes it clear that in the 19th century edition of the Dictionary of National Biography this engraver's works and career were assigned to two individuals, Peter (or Pierre) and Paul Fourdrinier. Peter/Pierre is now seen to be a fictitious individual resulting from an accidental misnaming of Paul. Paul Fourdrinier is mentioned as the engraver of some of the works listed above, and he has been identified with the Paul Fourdrinier who was of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, married to Susanna Grolleau, and who died in January or February 1758. The couple had at least five children, including a son Henry Fourdrinier, whose daughter, or granddaughter, Jemima Fourdrinier was the mother of Cardinal John Henry Newman...

Two prints of the four continents they are early 19th century, Dutch. In antique hand carved water gilded frames with original glass.