Hand map of Fort Zelandia/Zeelandia—VOC—Anping, Tainan, Taiwan plan—Dennys 1867
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'Hand map of Fort Zelandia.'
A plan of Fort Zeelandia at Anping distinguishing surviving mid-1860s walls from its conjectured former outline, with the lagoon, sea face, Chinese storehouse and armoury. The Dutch East India Company established the fortress on Tayouan sandbank from 1624 to control trade with China and Japan. Koxinga captured it after the siege of 1661–62, ending Dutch rule in Taiwan. Earthquakes, reuse and abandonment subsequently reduced it to part of the keep and broken outer walls. Yet the ruins remained essential to shipping: Taiwan-fu’s harbour had silted until the city lay five miles inland, and mariners used the fort’s conspicuous banyan tree as a landfall for Anping roadstead. Later silting joined the former island to the mainland; restoration and reconstruction created today’s Anping Old Fort. The plan preserves the site before these interventions. Dennys drew on Robert Swinhoe’s observations of Formosa; the draughtsman is unnamed. Exceptionally scarce: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record for this map.
Size 16 x 18 cm | 6.0 x 7.0 inches
Date Published: 1867
Type: Antique woodblock-printed fortification plan in red
Author: Mayers, Dennys & King
Publication: The Treaty Ports of China and Japan
Condition: Good |
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