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Fire engines with water hoses and the method of fighting fires now used in Amsterdam [Plate 8: Fire started by lightning near Elands Canal, 27 July 1679].
1690
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D Middle 84/GC182/Box 01/Oversize/Brandspuiten-boek GA 2024.02348
- Publisher
- 1690.
- People
-
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Fires—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)—History—17th century—In art
- Fire extinction—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Fire engines—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Fire fighters—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Fire pumps—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Illustration of books—Netherlands—17th century—Specimens
- Europe—History—17th century—In art
- Disasters—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Netherlands—History—17th century—In art
- Heyden, Jan van der, 1637-1712. Beschryving der nieuwlyks uitgevonden en geotrojeerde slang-brand-spuiten en haare wyze van brand-blussen, tegenwoordig binnen Amsterdam in gebruik zynde—Illustrations
- Dutch literature—17th century—Illustrations
- Leaves (gathered matter).
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Fire engines with water hoses and the method of fighting fires now used in Amsterdam [Plate 8: Fire started by lightning near Elands Canal, 27 July 1679].
- Call Number
- D Middle 84/GC182/Box 01/Oversize/Brandspuiten-boek GA 2024.02348
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcbn999n01t
- Publisher
- 1690.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1690
- Extent
- 1 item
- References
- Heyden, Jan van der. Beschryving der nieuwlyks uitgevonden en geotrojeerde slang-brand-spuiten en haare wyze van brand-blussen, tegenwoordig binnen Amsterdam in gebruik zynde; 1690.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Engravings
- Item description: One of 18 plates in the collection; 19 plates were published in the first edition of the book, and 26 plates were published in the second edition [in 1735.].
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Fires—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)—History—17th century—In art
- Fire extinction—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Fire engines—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Fire fighters—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Fire pumps—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Illustration of books—Netherlands—17th century—Specimens
- Europe—History—17th century—In art
- Disasters—Netherlands—Amsterdam—In art
- Netherlands—History—17th century—In art
- Heyden, Jan van der, 1637-1712. Beschryving der nieuwlyks uitgevonden en geotrojeerde slang-brand-spuiten en haare wyze van brand-blussen, tegenwoordig binnen Amsterdam in gebruik zynde—Illustrations
- Dutch literature—17th century—Illustrations
- Leaves (gathered matter).
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9df94034-49c7-4f1d-9cd0-d0416cbc754a/manifest