Artist: Carel Allard (1648-1709), publisher (copy after)
Title: Fort Dauphin
Date: about 1700
School: Dutch, Dutch XVIIth-century
Medium: engraving and etching
Dimensions: 182 x 216mm (plate), 295 x 374mm (support)
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam (see image below)
Inscriptions/marks: title in the image on a banner in the sky between the two figures <<FORT DAUPHIN>>, publisher’s details etched in the plate bottom left <<Apud C. Allard cum Privil>>, on the image in ink lower right <<477>>
Condition: fine condition on laid paper
Description: view of Fort Dauphin in Madagascar with a female and male in local costume. A reduced contemporary copy.
Reference: The original was produced to illustrate a deluxe town and costume book of various towns and cities of the world entitled Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus, published by the Amsterdam publisher Carel Allard in about 1698 and illustrated with 100 engravings and etchings, often hand-coloured. Some of the costume plates are credited to the printmaker Aldert Meyer in the collection of the British Museum
Provenance: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington 2023
