Subject: India
Period: 1682 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
13.6 x 10.8 inches
34.5 x 27.4 cm
A handsome engraving of the Portuguese colony of Coylang on the Malabar coast under attack by the Dutch during the 16th-17th century struggle for empire between the two countries. The local inhabitants are fishing off the bank in the foreground. Engraved by Johannes Kip.
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Condition: A
A few extraneous creases and a repaired marginal tear, else fine.