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Nov. 12th, 2008 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ringlunaticNow it's time for a little (art)history! Click the pics for slightly bigger ones. Sorry for the .png files, but I'm at uni and can't change that until I'm at home again much later today.
Anyway.
This is the first image of NewYorkAmsterdam.
Looks a bit depressing, huh? But this is how it really looked like, drawn from a ship in 1647.
The people at home, home being the Dutch Republic, thought so too and wanted to show off a bit more. This was a bit success of the Dutch West India trading company and they wanted something pretty on the wall to celebrate this. So they gave the depressing, but real, drawing to the artist Johannes Vinckboons and he made this:
Much better, isn't it? Awfully Dutch, though, with that mill and those ships and the green and everything. But people were happy.
A similiar print appeared in books and on phamflets. (This one is from a book printed by Evert Nieuwenhoff)
However, then we traded NewYorkAmsterdam! Then the people wanted to see something exotic. The world was HUGE and most people in the Dutch Republic were never ever going to see New York for real. An awful lot of Dutch could read, though, and/or made enough money to buy prints of newsevents or things they found interesting. But if you've looked at the three pics I showed before, nothing extra ordinary is shown. Yes, it's New YorkAmsterdam, but it doesn't look any different from something they could see with their own eyes. This can't be right! New York = exotic and different!
So they made these (this is from a Visscher map):
Cause we all know that there are a lot of palmtrees in New York/America ;)
Anyway.
This is the first image of New
Looks a bit depressing, huh? But this is how it really looked like, drawn from a ship in 1647.
The people at home, home being the Dutch Republic, thought so too and wanted to show off a bit more. This was a bit success of the Dutch West India trading company and they wanted something pretty on the wall to celebrate this. So they gave the depressing, but real, drawing to the artist Johannes Vinckboons and he made this:
Much better, isn't it? Awfully Dutch, though, with that mill and those ships and the green and everything. But people were happy.
A similiar print appeared in books and on phamflets. (This one is from a book printed by Evert Nieuwenhoff)
However, then we traded New
So they made these (this is from a Visscher map):
Cause we all know that there are a lot of palmtrees in New York/America ;)
