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.
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