
Sujet
Jan van der Heyden, Dutch Baroque-era painter, draughtsman, printmaker and inventor, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter
Légende
Jan van der Heyden, Dutch Baroque-era painter, draughtsman, printmaker and inventor, c1870. Van der Heyden (1637-1712) improved the design of the fire hose and wrote and illustrated the first manual on firefighting. He designed a streetlighting system for Amsterdam that was implemented in 1669 and remained in use until 1840. It was copied in many other towns and cities both in the Netherlands and abroad. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J van Lenner and J ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870).
The Print Collector collection
Date
1870
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C48_136
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,3Mo (6,3Mo) / 32,6cm x 38,7cm / 3849 x 4572 (300dpi)