Antique Print-CATAMARAN-STORM-SAIL-KADAH-MALAYSIA-MALACCA-Sewel-Dampier-1698

Subject: Page no.358: Untitled. It shows a catamaran sailing vessel in heavy weather off the coast of Kudda / Queda or Kedah in present day Malaysia. One of the men on board scoops water with a bucket, while the others manage the sails and rudder.

Condition: Very good, given age. A faint dampstain in the top left corner of the image and margins, as welll as a faint stain in the bottom left corner margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Etching on a verge type handlaid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 16 x 20 cm. The image size is ca. 12 x 15.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 6.3 x 7.9 inch. The image size is ca. 4.7 x 6.1 inch.

Part Number: 42961

Location: C23-30

Description: This print originates from the 1698 Dutch edition of William Sewel's translation of William Dampier's travelogue: 'Nieuwe Reystogt rondom de Werreld' (A New Voyage Round the World), published in the Hague by Abraham de Hondt.

Artists and Engravers: Engraver Caspar Luyken (based on monogram C.L. in some of the plates in the originating work).