Jacob van Meurs
Incisore olandese di geografia
Jacob van Meurs era un incisore ed editore olandese di Amsterdam. Le sue opere si trovano nella National Gallery of Art e nella National Portrait Gallery. Attivo dal 1651 al 1680, si specializzò in opere di geografia, resoconti di viaggio e storia. Pubblicò la prima versione de Il Nuovo e Sconosciuto Mondo: o Descrizione dell'America e della Terra del Sud, che fu stampato in olandese e includeva 125 incisioni su rame.
Artworks by this artist
- Plate V： Pyrotechnic set piece of Fortuna (exterior) 1650
- Plate D： Powder magazine： powder instruments： rocket molds 1650
- Plate F： Tools and techniques for choking and preparing rockets for their chargers 1650
- Plate G： Rockets mounted to sticks 1650
- Plate H： Rockets mounted without sticks： water rockets： rockets mounted to lines 1650
- Plate T： Pyrotechnic set piece of Fortuna (interior) 1650
- Plate N： Patterns for cutting military fireball bags： manners of sewing military fireball bags…. 1650
- Plate C： Diagrams of weighing principles and instruments： vessel： powder magazines 1650
- Plate E： Rocket and cracker molds： instruments for charging rocket cases： tools and techniques for choking rocket cases 1650
- Plate A： Diagrams and instruments to calculate the caliber of bullets and balls 1650
- Plate L： Fireballs shot from a mortar： crackers： military hand grenades： military mortar-fired grenades： military grenade parts and instruments 1650
- Plate R： Pyrotechnic set piece of Bacchus (interior) 1650
- Plate O： Composite fireball weapons： specialty fireballs： case shot： trundle and chain shot： pyrotechnic shields： fire weapon 1650
- Plate Q： Pyrotechnic set piece of a dragon 1650
- Plate I： Devices to hang sky rockets： fireballs that float on water 1650
- Plate K： Fireballs that float on water： bounding fireballs： mortar-fired fireballs 1650
- Plate S： Pyrotechnic set piece of Bacchus (exterior) 1650
- Plate B： Diagrams to calculate the diameter of bullets： weight conversion chart 1650
- Plate P： Pyrotechnic shield： pyrotechnic hand weapons： fire wheels and their parts： pyrotechnic cases 1650
- Plate W： Pyrotechnic set piece of a fortified castle： triumphal statue： military pyrotechnics 1650