Identification title(s): view of the back of the town hall on dam square. T stadts huys behind geevel (title on object). Object type: picture book illustration object number: rp-p-ao-21-16-2. Catalog reference: number of states known-1(3). Note: see comments. Hollstein dutch 6. Note: number of states is incorrect. Description: view of the back of the city hall on dam square in amsterdam. On the left part of the nieuwe kerk. Different figures on the street. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: jan veenhuysen (mentioned on object), publisher: marcus willemsz. Doornick (possibly). Place of manufacture: amsterdam. Dating: 1664. Material: paper technique: etching / engraving (printing process). Dimensions: plate edge: h 114 mm × w 136 mmexplanationcurrent condition of print also used in: fockens, melchior. Description of the famous koopstadt amstelredam, from its first principles since the year 1203. Old privileges, various enlargementsold privileges, and various enlargements (. . . ). 3rd edition. Amsterdam: marcus willemsz. Doornick, 1664. And in: zesen, philipp von. Beschrybung der weidtberuhmde kauf-stadt amstelredam / beschreibung der stadt amsterdam darinnen von derselben first ursprunge bis gegenwartigen zustand (…). Amsterdam: marcus willemsz. Doornick, 1664. Second known state (with addition of french title) also used in: domselaer, tobias and isaac commelin. Description of amsterdam: its first origins from the house of the lords of aemstel and aemstellant (. . . ). 6 parts. Amsterdam: marcus willemsz van doornick, 1665. Third known state (numbered top right: 4) also used in several later seventeenth- and eighteenth-century publications. Subject: what: townhallchurch (exterior), street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage), bridge in city across river, canal, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage). Where: amsterdam city hall (1655-1808). New church. Nieuwezijds voorburgwal. Acquisition: transfer of management 1887. Date: 1664.
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