Old Antique Print of Fort Noordwijk, Batavia 'Jakarta, Indonesia', 1739

Antique print titled 'Ein Prospect des Forts Nortweijck, wie sich dasselbe wan man von Jacatra komt, mit seiner Gegend präsentiret'. Old print of Fort Noordwijk, Batavia (Jakarta). This print originates from from 'Allerneuester Geographische- und Topographischer Schau-platz, von Africa und Ost-Indien'. Artists and Engravers: Johann Wolfgang Heydt, a German artist who worked for the Dutch East India...

Antique print titled 'Ein Prospect der Insul Onrust oder Unruhe 2 Meilen von Batavia gelegen.' (View of the island ' Onrust' near Batavia.) Onrust Island also known as Pulau Onrust or Pulau Kapal (ship island) is an Indonesian island off the coast of Jakarta. It measures about 3.5 km2 (1.4 sq mi) and is part of the Thousand Islands. The town on the island had houses and warehouses, but it also had a gunpowder magazine, a storage for water transported from Batavia, general warehouses, and a lot of warehouses specifically meant to store pepper. Specific to the shipyard were the reservoirs for trees. Sawing windmills processed these trees to make planks for the shipyards. There was also a smithy that served the shipyard. Near the waterfront there were special installations to easily pull ships on their side. Sometimes ships for local use were built at the island. The VOC employees were only allowed to leave the island two times a year. In 1911 Onrust Island was turned into a quarantine station for pilgrims returning from the Hajj. The island had the advantage of being completely isolated. Furthermore, it was so small that it was possible to make it malaria free by the only method known at the time. This was done by filling up all the small ponds and other fresh water instances on the island and by removing most vegetation. Later a sanatorium for lung diseases was established on the island, because of the very much improved health situation. From 1933 it was used to lock up the mutineers of the 1933 mutiny on the HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (1909). In 1940 German nationals were interned on Onrust. In May 1940 the Netherlands were attacked by Germany. In the Dutch East Indies thousands of Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Italians, Dutchmen with a German family name, and members of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands were arrested and locked up at Onrust and in Ngawai. After war with Japan broke out on 8 December 1941 a small part of these prisoners was evacuated to Suriname. The Japanese also used Onrust as a prison. On 23 January 1950 Raymond Westerling attempted the APRA coup d'état. It failed, and most of the APRA military were seized by the Dutch troops that were still on Java. The Dutch military...

Antique print titled 'Vue de l'Isle et de la ville de Batavia appartenant aux Hollandois'. Beautiful view of the island and the city of Batavia belonging to the Dutch, for the India ...

Antique print titled 'Ein Prospect Sr. Hoch-Edelheit des Herrn Gen: Gouverneurs Hoff und Wohnhausses in dem Castel Batavia wie dasselbe von innen anzusehen'. Old print with a view of the Governor-General's residence in Batavia. This print originates from from 'Allerneuester Geographische- und Topographischer Schau-platz, von Africa und Ost-Indien'. Artists and Engravers: Johann Wolfgang Heydt, a German artist who worked for the Dutch East India...

Antique print titled 'Tableau de la Partie de Batavia, ou s'est fait proprement le terrible Massacre des Chinois (..)'. Original antique print of the Batavia massacre. The 1740 Batav...

Antique print titled 'De Reede van Batavia - La Rade de Batavia'. Old print of East India merchant ships and some sloops near the harbour of Batavia, present day Jakarta, Indones...

Cricket print of Joseph Guy of Nottingham. A framed, tinted and hand colored lithographic portrait of the All- England cricketer Joseph Guy (1813 - 187...

Great image of helmets Copper-plate engraving Published C.1820 Unframed.

Great image of Napoleon Bonaparte Fine steel engraving Published by Furne, Paris circa 1850 Unframed. The size given is the paper size

John Roberts Junior Photogravure. Late 19th century study of John Roberts Junior, billiards player, signed in pencil by John Roberts Junior and the artist Thomas Edward Gaunt. Robe...

Great image of relics belonging to Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie Fine steel engraving by Charles Lawrie Published by Blackie, Edinburgh,Circa 1880 Unframed.

Print by engraving on copper plate of the first half of the 19th century, depicting the bombardment of Cadiz by the French Navy, 23 September 1823. The print is signed peint par Crep...