Application of the new fire hoses, 1677
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Sheet with a large representation of the application of the new hose fire engines of Jan van der Heyden and Jan van der Heyden the Younger when extinguishing a fire in a building in an imaginary city. At the top two canvases with the titles in Dutch and French. At the bottom four small representations of fires in houses and on a ship and a model of the pump. Hereby the legend A-M in Dutch and French. Below the plate a text sheet is pasted with a description in 4 columns in Dutch and French. Belongs to the supplementary prints of the Fire Engine Book by Jan van der Heyden. Subject categories within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Government, Fire Brigade.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description