• Vintage map of a city with fortifications and water body, likely from the 18th century.
  • Vintage map of a city layout with streets and landmarks
  • Vintage map of a city layout with streets and buildings
  • Vintage illustration with text 'PLAN DE LA' and a small map on a beige background
  • Vintage map or chart with text and measurements on a beige background
  • Vintage map detail with text on a beige background
  • Text on a beige background with a decorative border
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Antique map of Antwerp, 1730

SKU:  195279

Antique map of Antwerp, 1730

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Published in 1730 by the prominent Amsterdam firm Covens & Mortier, Plan de la Ville et Citadelle d’Anvers is a finely engraved urban map depicting the fortified city of Antwerp at a time when strategic defense and commercial vitality were inseparable. As successors to the Blaeu publishing legacy, Covens & Mortier were renowned for issuing authoritative and visually refined cartography for a European audience of merchants, diplomats, and military officials.

The map presents Antwerp in precise planimetric detail, emphasizing its geometric street grid, bastioned fortifications, and imposing citadel positioned along the Scheldt River. Defensive walls, ravelins, moats, and gate structures are carefully articulated, reflecting the continued military importance of the city following the conflicts of the seventeenth century. The riverfront is equally prominent, underscoring Antwerp’s enduring role as a major commercial port in the Low Countries.

Public buildings, churches, civic spaces, and principal thoroughfares are methodically labeled, providing both functional clarity and urban coherence. The engraving style is disciplined and balanced, with ornamental flourishes reserved for the title cartouche and scale indicators, allowing the structural geometry of the city itself to dominate the composition.

Beyond its technical merits, this map captures Antwerp at a pivotal period of recovery and adaptation within the Austrian Netherlands. It documents not only architecture and infrastructure, but also the layered political history embedded within its fortifications.

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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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