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Bird's eye view of Colombo and environs
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Bird's eye view of Colombo and environs

Title in the Leupe catalogue (NA): Gezicht in vogelvlucht op (Colombo). The chart is untitled. See Atlas Van der Hem XXXIX-4, National Library in Vienna. Compare a similar image rendered in Baldaeus, 'Beschrijving van Ceylon', Amsterdam 1672, pages 104 and 128.

Date
c. 1665
Mapmaker / publisher
Johannes Vingboons (land surveyor / mapmaker)
Place
Colombo
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
bird's-eye view
Original size
2,400 × 1,718 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

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"Bird's eye view of Colombo and environs" (c. 1665). Johannes Vingboons (land surveyor / mapmaker), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMH-6166-NA_Bird%27s_eye_view_of_Colombo_and_environs.jpg

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