Accession number
PML 63061.7
Creator
Heyden, Jan van der, 1637-1712.
Published
[Netherlands] : [publisher not identified], [1690-1710]
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. Henry S. Morgan, 1972.
Notes
Engraved caption below image in five lines in two columns, in Dutch and French.
Text in two columns.
Instructions for using the fire hose to extinguish fire and a house.
Image depicts various men using different fire equipment, labeled with letters that correspond with descriptions in the text, near a canal extinguishing a fire in a house and spraying a nearby tree to prevent it from catching fire, utilizing water from the canal. With two images of fire engines and pumps inset near the top right corner.
Image: 20 x 25.2 cm; plate mark: 23.5 x 26.2 cm.
This item is bound into PML 63061 with 12 other prints/broadsides relating to fire extinction and fire engines.
Text in two columns.
Instructions for using the fire hose to extinguish fire and a house.
Image depicts various men using different fire equipment, labeled with letters that correspond with descriptions in the text, near a canal extinguishing a fire in a house and spraying a nearby tree to prevent it from catching fire, utilizing water from the canal. With two images of fire engines and pumps inset near the top right corner.
Image: 20 x 25.2 cm; plate mark: 23.5 x 26.2 cm.
This item is bound into PML 63061 with 12 other prints/broadsides relating to fire extinction and fire engines.
Description
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration (engraving) ; 41.1 x 31.2 cm
Provenance
Captain F.C. Brooke.
Classification
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