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Adriaen van de Velde: The Continents of Africa and America: Design for the Decoration of a Map   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Adriaen van de Velde  (1636–1672)  wikidata:Q367741
 
Adriaen van de Velde
Description Dutch painter, drawer, printmaker and sculptor
Date of birth/death 30 November 1636 (baptised) 21 January 1672 (buried)
Location of birth/death Amsterdam Amsterdam
Work location
Haarlem (....-1657), Amsterdam (1657-1672)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q367741
Title
The Continents of Africa and America: Design for the Decoration of a Map
label QS:Len,"The Continents of Africa and America: Design for the Decoration of a Map"
label QS:Lnl,"De continenten Afrika en Amerika: ontwerp voor de decoratie van een plattegrond"
Description
Allegorie van Amerika met pijl en boog, gezeten op een alligator, en allegorie van Afrika met schorpioen, hoorn des overvloeds en leeuw. Gebruikt in de plattegrond Exactissima Amstelodami veteris et novissimi delineatio per F. de Wit van Frederik de Witt.
Date circa 1671
date QS:P571,+1671-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium pen and black ink, gray wash on paper
Dimensions height: 12 cm (4.7 in); width: 10.8 cm (4.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,12U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,10.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q2170763
Current location
Collectie tekeningen en prenten
Accession number
010097006799
Place of creation Amsterdam
Object history by 1980
date QS:P,+1980-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1980-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: C.G. Boerner (art dealer), Leipzig/Düsseldorf/New York City

29 October 1979: anonymous sale at Sotheby's, Amsterdam (auction house), lot no. 213

by 1994
date QS:P,+1994-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1994-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Jacobus A. Klaver, Amsterdam

10 May 1994: sale of the collection of Jacobus A. Klaver at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, lot no. 68

Unknown date: acquired by the Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, today Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Exhibition history Het Aanzien van Amsterdam. Panorama's, plattegronden en profielen uit de Gouden Eeuw, Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 19 October 2007–16 January 2008, ISBN 978-90-6868-444-5, cat. no.  39, as The continents of Africa and America: design for the decoration of a map, circa 1671
date QS:P,+1671-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
, brush and grey ink.
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Stadsarchief Amsterdam, as Amerika en Afrika, twee continenten, 1671, tekening, 12 × 10.8 cm (4.7 × 4.2 in).

RKDimages, Art-work number 64137, as Allegorie: Afrika en Amerika, 1651-1672, papier, pen in zwart, gewassen in grijs, doorgetrokken, 12 × 10.7 cm (4.7 × 4.2 in)
Source/Photographer beeldbank.amsterdam.nl : Home : Info
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File:Atlas de Wit 1698-pl018-Amsterdam-KB PPN 145205088.jpg
Map by Frederik de Wit

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