Netherlands - Zeeland

Image of the salt mining in Zeeland according to the so-called darinkdelven, ca. 1600. Drawing by Cornelis Pronk after a painting (oil on panel) from about 1540 in the city hall museum Zierikzee. Full title at the bottom: 'De Zel-Nering of het Darink-Delven, zoo als het oudtijds, in Zeeland geoefend werdt'. By (lower left) 'C. Pronk del. naar het Origineel, 1745', engraved by (lower right) 'J.C. Philips fecit'. In the foreground the sinking of the Darink at low tide on the peat flats, the transport to the shore and the burning of the dried peat clumps from which the salt is won. On the left the town of Zierikzee. Ref.: Muller 1114, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-80.476). From: Jan Wagenaar. 'Vaderlandsche historie, vervattende de geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden […]', Amsterdam:, Isaak Tirion, 1749-1759, vol. 4 (1750), or a later edition 1770. Good condition, complete sheet 19x31 cm with full margins, three vertical folds as issued, uncolored, verso blank.

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