View of São Tomé, ca. 1641

View of the African island of São Tomé, ca. 1641. The island captured by a Dutch fleet of the WIC under the command of Cornelis Cornelisz Jol, alias Houtebeen, on 11 October 1641. Several Dutch ships in the foreground. In the sky a winged scroll with the title decorated with two smoke horns. In the caption the explanation of the letters A-L in Latin. Plate no. 49 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.