The Dutch East
India Company's "logie" at Surat, 1629 [1646]
Plate
9, "Logie van Suratte," a view of the Dutch East India Company's
warehouse and living quarters in Surat as seen in April 1629 by
Pieter van den Broecke (1585-1640), a Dutch cloth merchant in the
service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC); CLICK ON THE IMAGE
FOR A VERY LARGE SCAN.
This copperplate engraving from
'Historische ende Iournaelsche Aentekeningh, van 't gene Pieter
van den Broecke op sijne Reysen, soo van Cabo Verde, Angola, Gunea
en Oost-Indien voorghevallen is.... (Pieter van den Broecke:
Voyages to West Africa and Asia 1605-1630.), which was part of the
monumental work by Isaac Commelin (1598-1676) on VOC voyages:
'Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche
Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Companie....', was published by
Joannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1646.
A panoramic view of Surat, in which
the Dutch logie is marked with "3"; an engraving by Jacob
Koppmayer from Wagner's 'Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et
Imperii Turcici', Augsburg, 1687; CLICK ON EITHER HALF OF THE
ENGRAVING FOR A VERY LARGE SCAN
And then its later destiny:
"The Lodge of the English at
Suratte-- 1) The Church; 2) The House; 3) The Armory; 4) The
Coach-house," from 'Lo Statto presente di tutti i paesi e popoli
del mondo...', a translation of the work of *Thomas Salmon*,
published in Venice, 1751; CLICK ON THE IMAGE FOR A VERY LARGE
SCAN
Bellin's view of Surat, from
Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages', c.1750; CLICK ON THE
IMAGE FOR A VERY LARGE SCAN
How to get to Surat: a navigator's
map (showing channels and water depths) by Pieter van der Aa, from
'La Galerie Agreable du Monde (...).Tome premier des Indes
Orientales.', published in Leyden, c. 1725
Where to go from Surat: a map of trade and travel routes through
the Deccan, by Pierre du Val, 1690 (with special praise for the
local mangoes)
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