View of Galle
Title in the Leupe catalogue (NA): Gezicht op Point de Gale van de zeezijde. Corresponds almost entirely with the illustration rendered in Valentijn V, page 22. Depicted in the centre of the image is a strip of land with on it houses, a church and vegetation. In the foreground the sea with several trading vessels and smaller boats.
- Date
- c. 1665
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Johannes Vingboons (land surveyor / mapmaker)
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- atlas page
- Original size
- 2,400 × 1,740 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"View of Galle" (c. 1665). Johannes Vingboons (land surveyor / mapmaker), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMH-6159-NA_View_of_Galle.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 303996.
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