Van de Plaats geschikt tot de Jaarlyksche Exercitie der Slangbrandspuyten binnen Amsterdam ... [print].

Plate 4 of Supplement: Annual testing of the new fire-engines; the court-yard of the Bourse of Amsterdam seen from a vaulted arch, with a pump connected to a canal in left foreground, connected by a hose with an engine seen at the back of the court-yard; lettered A-D within composition indicating different parts of the fire-engine; after a preparatory drawing by Jan van der Heyden; illustration to Jan van der Heyden's "Beschryving der nieuwlijks uitgevonden en geoctrojeerde Slang-Brand-Spuiten" (Amsterdam: 1690-1735).
One of six additional illustrations to the supplement of van der Heydens's book from 1690, of which one is signed "I. Scherm, sculp.". It can therefore be assumed that they were probably all engraved by Laurens Scherm.
Lettered in lower margin with Dutch key to the letters A-D from within composition, describing the different parts of the fire-engine. Lettered above image (on separate plate) with Dutch title: "Afbeelding van de Plaats geschikt tot / de Jaarlyksche Exercitie der Slangbrandspuyten / binnen Amsterdam, aldaar geschiedende voor / en op de Beurs, met een van des / Stads Slangbrandspuyten: in maniere als / hier onder in de Prent werdt aangeweezen.".
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Library has 3 of 6 additional illustrations to van der Heyden's supplement (2 copies of plate 5).
This item is bound into PML 63061 with 12 other prints/broadsides relating to fire extinction and fire engines.