Category: prints
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Josef Selleny’s View of Manila, 1858
When Josef Selleny visited Manila in 1858 as part of the Austrian Novara expedition, the city was a busy Spanish colonial port defined by walls, churches, cigar factories, river traffic, and the movement of hemp, tobacco, and other commodities. Shipping on the Pasig River at Manila belongs to this moment of maritime activity. Signed with…
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A 1698 Dutch etching of Mindanao by Caspar Luyken
Caspar Luyken’s Grote optocht ter gelegenheid van de aankomst van kapitein Charles Swan op Mindanao (Grand Procession on the Occasion of the Arrival of Captain Charles Swan on Mindanao) is a Dutch etching dated 1698. Made as a book illustration for volume I of William Dampier’s Nieuwe reystogt rondom de werreld, published in The Hague…
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Jan van der Straet’s (Stradanus) Ferdinand Magellan on His Ship (1589)
Jan van der Straet’s (Stradanus) Ferdinand Magellan on His Ship (1589) belongs to the Americae Retectio series, a group of engravings commemorating the navigators associated with overseas expansion. Magellan occupies the center of the composition seated aboard a ship equipped with cannon, navigational instruments, and the Spanish coat of arms. He holds a pair of…
Geronimo Cristobal 