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  • A 1698 Dutch etching of Mindanao by Caspar Luyken

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    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…

  • Jan van der Straet’s (Stradanus) Ferdinand Magellan on His Ship (1589)

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    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…