Detail View: Old Maps Collection: De stadt Macao

Barcode: 
4687820500715
Title: 
De stadt Macao
Other Title: 
[Plattegrond gezicht in vogelvlucht op Macao, China]
Contributor: 
Vinckeboons, Joan, 1617-1670, cartographer
Category: 
City Plans & Views
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
Dutch
Language: 
Italian
Create Year: 
[ca. 1665]
Format: 
JPEG, 6978 × 5000, 17.3MB
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
41 x 58 cm, on sheet 42 x 59 cm
Note: 
Although Joan Vinckeboons has never been to Asia himself he made quite a few city elevations, plans, coastal profiles and sea charts with combined information based on reports and sketches that masters, helmsmen and merchants made on their travels under the orders of the Dutch East India Company and Dutch West India Company. This particular view of Macau is taken in perspective 90º displaced to East. The prosperity of Macao at that time is manifest with the representation of 24 vessels of various sizes in the Inner Harbour and North Bay, recording the spectacular events of ocean trade at the time. The image shows a peninsula with a walled city, churches, dwellings, monasteries and forts. Actually the city, its buildings and fortresses are drawn in minutiae and usually with a brief legend. It can be seen the São Paulo Fort with the São Paulo cloister right behind it, the monastery of São Francisco, the churches of Santo Agostinho and São Lourenço, the A-Ma Temple drawn in Western style and the Barra Fort. Outside the city one can discern a number of houses and the church of São Lázaro, the Guia Lighthouse and the green land is the lotus-stem-like, the rice fields and meadows along Mong-Ha village.
Note: 
Original is a manuscript map from the Manuscript Atlas of Joan Vinckeboons, 56 x 77 cm.
Note: 
Oriented with East at the top.
Note: 
Relief shown pictorially.
Note: 
Outlined in yellow fillet.
Note: 
City Plans of Macao.
Reference: 
Oliveira, F.R. Cartografia antiga da cidade de Macau, c. 1600-1700: confronto entre modelos de representação europeus e chineses, Scripta Nova, vol. X. n.º 218 (53), 1 de agosto de 2006
Reference: 
Silveira, L. Ensaio de Iconografia das Cidades Portuguesas do Ultramar, pl. 846
Subject: 
Aerial views
Geographic Area: 
Macao (China)
Pub Title: 
Atlas Vingboons
Pub Author: 
Vinckeboons, Joan, 1617-1670.
Pub Year: 
[ca. 1665]
Provenance: 
National Archives of the Netherlands
Provenance: 
https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/en/research/map-collection/af87d324-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84
Provenance Call No.: 
4.VELH619-66.
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/reglfj/alma991000058969705076