Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
Map of California shown as an island. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Johannes Vingboons (1616/1617 - July 20, 1670) was a Dutch cartographer and watercolorist. By combining his traditional expertise as a cartographer with his artistic qualities as a watercolorist, he produced water colors of exotic lands based on scrupulous research. These he based on reports and sketches that masters, helmsmen and merchants on their travels under the orders of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) and WIC (Dutch West India Company). He made city elevations, plans, coastal profiles and sea charts, combining them until he had produced a unique series of images that gave an accurate image of a large part of the world then known to Dutch trade. For many of these areas, his are the earliest images.
