View of Luanda (left half), ca. 1641

View of Luanda (São Paulo de Luanda) in Angola (left half), ca. 1641. Left plate of a large depiction printed on two plates. The city captured by a Dutch fleet of the WIC under the command of Cornelis Cornelisz Jol, alias Houtebeen, on 24 August 1641. Several Dutch ships off the coast. In the caption the explanation of the letters A-F in Latin. Plate no. 47/2 in a series of 55 depictions of the journey to and stay in Brazil of Count Johan Maurits of Nassau in the years 1636-1644.