Map of Sluis, 1626 (Sluis [L'Ecluse, Sluys], Zeeland, Netherlands) 51°18'30"N  03°23'10"E

Claes Jansz Visscher II (c.1587-1652) (printer and publisher) [below key, bottom right:] Uÿtgegeven ende ghedruckt bÿ / Claes Ianß. Visscher. / ‘tjaer 1627.

Watermark: Indistinct

Condition: one crease line; brown discolouration and spotting; pressure marks from the mounts of items which were kept above and below this map in a different collection are present on the recto and verso

Scale: 1:33,000 approx. Scale bar: Scale van Duysent Roeden [114 mm=] 1000.

36.0 x 44.9 cm (image and neatline)

cropped (platemark)

40.4 x 54.7 cm (mount)

Printed title:

KAERTE VAN SLUYS, HET ZWIN, ENDE DE SCHANSEN AEN WEDER SYDEN. [in panel, across top of map]

Additional text:

[in cartouche, bottom right, a key, 1-13:] Verklaringe van de syde der H. H. / Staten der vereenichde Nederlande. [in cartouche, bottom left, a key, 1-6:] Verklaringe van de syde des / Konings van Spangien.

Annotations:

George III heading: Sluys 1626.

Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom right, black pencil:] 162[7?] (Verso) [left centre, red pencil:] I/148; [top left, black pencil, erased:] II/7.

George III catalogue entry:

Sluys A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Sluys with the adjacent Forts relative to the attempt on Sluys by the Spaniards in 1626: by C.J. Visscher, 1627.

Bibliographic reference(s)

T. Campbell, ‘Claes Jansz. Visscher : a hundred maps described’, Map Collectors’ Circle V, no. 46, London 1968, p. 23, no. 89

C. Koeman. Atlantes Neerlandici 3, Leiden 1967-1985, p. 159, Vis 1A, no. 24 and p. 178, no. 67