Was dem Obersten Spielberger… Matecalo—Dutch—Batticaloa—Sri Lanka—de Bry 1605
£250
SKU: P-7-028372
Was dem Obersten Spielberger dieweil er vor Matecalo gelegen / für abentheur begegnet [What happened to Colonel Spielberger while he lay before Matecalo]
Johann Theodor de Bry’s dramatic plate, published by Matthias Becker at Frankfurt in the 1605 German Little Voyages, shows Joris van Spilbergen’s ships lying off Matecalo, the Batticaloa roadstead on Ceylon’s east coast, during his 1602 voyage to Sri Lanka, Aceh and Bantam. It depicts a numbered narrative of naval captures in early August 1602, after Spilbergen’s return from Kandy: Dutch shallops and boats take a Portuguese galliot and champan/sampan trading craft, while another Portuguese boat flees. The incident helped demonstrate to Kandyan representatives that the Dutch were enemies of the Portuguese, strengthening the proposed anti-Portuguese alliance. Crowded shipping, coastal topography and the German title make this a vivid early image of Dutch intervention in Sri Lankan maritime politics.
Size 30 x 19 cm | 12.0 x 7.5 inches
Date Published: 1605
Type: Antique uncoloured copper engraving with German letterpress text
Author: de Bry, Johann Theodor
Publication: Orientalische Indien
Condition: Good |
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