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Ancient map of Santo Domingo, 1646

SKU:  195188

Ancient map of Santo Domingo, 1646

€64,91 EUR
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Matthäus Merian’s Civitas S. Dominici in Hispaniola (1646) is one of the earliest widely circulated European engraved views of Santo Domingo, capital of the Spanish colony on the island of Hispaniola and the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the Americas. Issued in Frankfurt as part of Merian’s monumental Topographia series, the view illustrates the city at a time when it remained a key administrative, ecclesiastical, and maritime center of the Spanish Caribbean.

Presented from an elevated perspective across the Río Ozama, the engraving captures Santo Domingo’s fortified urban core, surrounded by robust defensive walls, angular bastions, and shoreline batteries—structures built to protect the city against corsairs and rival European powers. The harbor, still one of the busiest in the region during the mid-17th century, is depicted with sailing vessels and open sea channels that emphasize its long-standing importance within the transatlantic trade network.

Merian’s fine, linear engraving technique reveals a dense cluster of civic and religious buildings. Notable among them is the Catedral Primada de América, the first cathedral in the New World, shown prominently within the orderly grid of streets. Convents, monasteries, administrative headquarters, and military buildings reflect both the city’s spiritual authority and its political centrality within Spain’s earliest American dominions.

In the foreground, small ships, vegetation, and occasional figures enliven the composition, while a floating Latin title ribbon identifies the city with characteristic Merian elegance. The combination of accurate topographical detail and refined Baroque engraving makes this view both an artistic object and a vital historical document.

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Materials

Cotton canvas, matte photo paper, fine art paper, pigmented inks.

  • The canvas it's 99 % cotton, 450 gr/sqm;
  • The matte photo paper it's acid-free (archival paper), 190 gr/sqm;
  • The fine art photo paper it's satinated (semi-glossy), 140 gr/sqm.

Shipping & Returns

Dispatching time: 1-2 days.

* Standard shipping fee: The orders will be sent by priority registered mail, usually via client National Post (USPS, Canada Post, Royal Mail, LaPoste, Deutsche Post, PostNL, etc). The delivery times are not guaranteed, sometimes it will take longer and these are beyond our control. Tracking number will be provided. Clients from US and Canada cannot track the parcels as the tracking numbers are not rolled in USPS and Canada Post systems.

* UPS standard: The orders will be sent with UPS expedited option. The delivery time it's between 5-11 days. Tracking number will be provided after dispatch.

* UPS express: The orders will be sent with UPS express saver. The delivery time it's between 4-7 days. Tracking number will be provided after dispatch.

Framing tips

Both type of materials, paper and canvas prints come rolled and will be need to be taken to your local framers.

The image it's printed with a border of 0.6 " (1.5 cm), for framing purposes only.

If you have already a frame, be sure you send us the exact size of the print that will fit inside the frame. We're printing on vectorial plotters so the size could slightly be more or less with 0.4" (1 cm).

If you plan to have the canvas print stretched on wooden frame, you'll need additional border, so please let us know after placing the order.

The images above was cropped from the image at the biggest size available (keeping the best quality and aspect /ratio), so, for good details please choose biggest dimensions that will suit your preferences / space.

Care Instructions

The print media (canvas or photo paper) could be cleaned only with a dry, soft cloth.

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