Cities, Globes & the Heavens
Anthonisz's Amsterdam from the Air
Every bridge, church and house of Amsterdam in 1544.
- Map
- De vermaerde koopstadt van Amstelredam
- Mapmaker
- Cornelis Anthonisz
- Date
- 1544, this printing 1636 to 1664
- Held by
- Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap · via the Rijksmuseum
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Cornelis Anthonisz drew the famous merchant city of Amsterdam in 1544 with all its waters, bridges, streets, churches, cloisters, houses, towers, gates and walls, as his title says, made in honour of the Emperor Charles V and the city council and for all lovers of the art. It is a woodcut, with its text set in type, and this impression, printed in the following century by the widow of Manuel Colijn, is twelve sheets joined on cloth, more than a metre square. Every house is drawn. It is Amsterdam as a walled town, before the city it became.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap · via the Rijksmuseum — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on matte paper that holds every line without glare.
