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1751 VAN KEULEN, G. - Nieuwe Afteekening van het Eijland Curaçao..
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Decorative and extremely rare chart of Curaçao with several coastal insets and an inset of Fort Amsterdam and the Bay of St.Anna (127x135mm.)
Besides the island of Curacao, this chart shows a wealth of information. In lower right a drawing of Fort Amsterdam. Inset in the upper center of the St. Anna Bay with the location of the fort. In the center a title cartouche in a medallion with the name of the publisher Gerard van Keulen.
To the right and left are coastal profile views of the island. Scale in Dutch, English and French miles.
Curaçao was "discovered" in 1499 by the Spaniard Alonso de Ojeda. The Dutch West India Company (WIC) took over from the Spanish in August 1634. In 1635-36, the beginning of the construction of Fort Amsterdam, and in 1665 the slave trade by WIC starts.
After the bankruptcy of the WIC in 1791, the island became a Dutch colony.
The chart is filled with interesting notes “Rontom Curacao, kan men digt aan de Wal loopen, soo dat men wel met een steen op de wal kan goyen, de Walle sijn heel styl. Daarom als men Ankeren wil moet men digt onder ‘t land gaan leggen. Als men inde Bay van St. Anna loopen wil moet men dat bij daeg doen: om dat de Wilde de scheepen met een tou moeten in trekken en om dat de stroom uyt gaet en dan moet men van beoosten Curacao om komen de stroom gaat daar hart om de West daerom moet men niet van bij ‘t gat vervallen: Dit Eyland heeft een steenagtige grond, hier wast veel stokvishout men heeft daer Vrugtbaare Vlaktens, inde bosse heeft men overvloedig vee: in de Bay St. Anna daer de A. staet is het Spanjaerts gat aldaer kunnen we wel 25 groote scheepen leggen.
St. Barabara baai is “Baaytie voor barke daer veel vis wordt gevangen”. In de Krake Bay (Caracasbaai) is een “clip daer de scheepen aen vast maken”. De Fuikbaai is “voor kleine schepen” en “dese Bay is in de mont toegedempt”.
Klein Curaçao “legt pas 3 voet boven water, is heel laag land vol gevogelte en wit van vogel mest. Bij nacht en moet men zich hier voor wagten.”
Sint Joris baai is “een onbequaam gat maer voor klein vaertuygh”.
Inland we see “vervalle capel” and on several locations are “vervalle huysen” and “sout panne voor ingeseetene”.
In Sint Annabaai we see the Fort Amsterdam and “een Ronde Put of Kuyl daer men vers Water haalt”, “Ruyters Quartier”,and “water plaets” and a “Plantagie”.
De kaart wordt door de firma Van Keulen een maal herzien en vanaf 1728 tot 1783 in een gecorrigeerde versie uitgegeven. Vanaf eind 18e-eeuw wordt het kaartbeeld gekopieerd en ook door Engelse uitgeverijen op de markt gebracht.
The map was revised once by the Van Keulen company and published in a corrected version from 1728 to 1783. From the end of the 18th century, the map image was copied and also marketed by English publishers.
Read more about the Dutch West Indian Company W.I.C.
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