Amsterdam – Isaak Tirion, 1760
€375
AMSTERDAM AFTER THE EXPANSION OF 1593
“Amsterdam zo als het, na de Vergooting des jaars 1593, binne zyne twaalf Bolwerken begreepen was: met den aanvang der Vergrootinge des jaars 1611, aan de West-, en de ontworpen Vergrooting, aan de Oost-zyde, gevolgd naar de Grondtekeing in de uitgave der Handvesten van den jaare.” [Amsterdam as it was after the enlargement of the year 1593, enclosed within its twelve bastions; showing also the beginning of the expansion of the year 1611 on the west side, and the planned expansion on the east side, according to the ground plan published in the edition of the city charters of that year.] Copper engraving published by Isaak Tirion in Amsterdam in 1760, as part of Jan Wagenaar’s “Vaderlandsche Historie”. Coloured by a later hand. Size (plate): 27.5 × 36 cm.
This map depicts Amsterdam as it appeared after the major city expansion of 1593, when the town became enclosed within twelve bastions. It also indicates the beginning of the next enlargement (1611) on the west side, marked by the construction of the Elandsgracht and Leidsegracht, as well as the design for a planned expansion on the east side that had not yet been carried out.
The engraving is a historical reconstruction, based on a map from 1612–1613, made to illustrate the spatial development of Amsterdam. The city plan reflects the transformation from a medieval trading town into an early modern fortified city with bastions, ramparts, and rectilinear canal structures—the precursor of the celebrated seventeenth-century Grachtengordel [canal belt].
Literature: Marc Hameleers (2003) “Amsterdamse Plattegronden 1866-2000”, no. 118.
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