Title
Kaart van het Eiland Borneo (Map of the Island of Borneo)
Creator
Year/Period
1726
Region
Holland
Material
Hand-coloured copper engraving on paper
Dimension
Image size: 45.5 x 56.0 cm,
Frame size: 70.0 x 80.0 x 1.5 cm
Frame size: 70.0 x 80.0 x 1.5 cm
Accession No.
2016-00309
Collection of
NLB Type
Map
Francois Valentijn (1666–1727) was a minister, naturalist and writer who served the Dutch V.O.C. in the East Indies in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His monumental work Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Old and New East-India), published between 1724 and 1726, offers a comprehensive mapping of the East Indies with a large selection of scale maps and views. This map of Borneo was published in that work.
