MAP - NETHERLANDS - HEENVLIET]. STEYAART, A.

Caarte ende Afbeeldinge der Stede en Vrye Heerlykheit van Heenvliet. No. XVII.[Brielle?], 1698/[1701]. Large engraved map of the Heenvliet polder (50.5 x 87.5 cm), with etched pictorial decorations and arms by Jan LUYKEN, with each of the several hundred parcels delineated and their surface areas indicated, a summary table, scale and large compass rose, and the houses, trees, windmills and Ravesteyn Castle individually drawn. Coloured by a contemporary hand.

      BMC Printed Maps XIV, col. 910; Donkersloot-De Vrij 247; V. Eeghen & V.d. Keller 2825 (no. 370/17); Klaversma & Hannema 1465 & 1466; Landwehr, De Hooghe Book Ill. 97; Phillips & LeGear 3089; Sijmons 336; IKAR (1 copy); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (1 copy); OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); NCC (5 copies); STCN (1 copy); not in Cat. Nat. Mar. Mus.; Koeman; Nordenskiöld. A large engraved map of the Heenvliet polder on the Maas river near Rotterdam in South Holland, with lovely etched decorations by Jan Luyken. At a scale of about 1:7300, it shows every parcel within the polder with its surface area indicated (a summary table at the upper right gives the areas of each district and the total). The small town of Heenvliet and just outside the polder the larger town of Geervliet and village of Zwartewaal are depicted in detail, and outside of Geervliet every house is separately drawn. Ravesteyn castle and its moat, whose ruins remain a popular tourist site today, are shown intact, although the Dutch burned the castle in 1572 to prevent it from falling into Spanish hands and never rebuilt it. Jan Luyken’s decorations show the crowned coats of arms of Heenvliet and of Baron Jacob Fredrik van Beieren van Schagen (1662-1724), Lord of Heenvliet, supported by a griffon and a lion, and with a falcon in between. Three men sit in the foreground, one with a firelock and one with a sickle and shock of wheat, with two dogs. The background shows two mounted men with two dogs and a boy on foot carrying their rack of falcons, milkmaids, a mounted hunter with dogs giving chase to a hare, and a church. Below left is a scale of 200 Heenvliet rods.The map was produced for the polder atlas, Voorne: Caart-Boeck van alle de Dorpen, en Polders gelegen inden lande van Oost, ende West Voorne, [Brielle?], 1701, with 3 overview and 29 detail maps, but the certification on this map is dated 30 April 1698 and it may have been printed at that time. Four people played a role in the production: the map was planned by Steyaart, drawn by the surveyor Heijman van Dijck and engraved by Jan Stemmers, and the pictorial decorations etched by Jan Luyken. The paper (one and a quarter sheets, pasted together before the map was printed from a single, very large plate) is watermarked: "PvL" monogram (Pieter van der Ley) = fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield above "4" & "WR" (general style Heawood 1781a, from Amsterdam ca. 1686).In very good condition and with the colouring fresh and bright, with only a couple marginal tears, one crossing the border but not affecting the map image, and three vertical folds, one somewhat worn. A beautiful and extremely detailed polder map with decorations by Jan Luyken.