Anonymous
1675

Plan de la Ville de Rode

Plan de la Ville de Rode (Rhodes)

DESCRIPTION: Scarce engraving of the port of Rode (Rhodes), Greece decorated with a bat-form title cartouche, a square-rigged warship, and three galleys. References on the plan to the 'Grand Master' and 'Sultan Suleiman' suggest that the map was intended to illustrate the Siege of Rhodes in 1522 when the Knights of Rhodes were defeated and driven out by the Ottomans. That order later became known as the 'Knights of Malta' after they established residence on the island of Malta in 1530.

We cannot locate an identical copy of this anonymous work anywhere on-line but the topographic details are nearly identical to those in a map by Dapper from 1687. This example probably dates from a period between 1650 - 1675 because this map contains more explanatory detail (in French) than Dapper's map and the strapwork cartouche points to an earlier style.

Numerous geographic descriptions include: the palace of the Grand Master; port des galeres; Tour de St. Jean; port des vaisseaux; the old walled village of Rhodes, and two long breakwaters, each protected by a tower at the end. Strapwork mileage scale.

CREATOR: Anonymous

PUBLICATION DATE: 1675

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Greece

BODY OF WATER: Aegean

CONDITION: Good  On medium-weight chain-laid paper. Two vertical folds and one horizontal fold. Margins short at bottom and right. Small repaired tear at bottom.

COLORING: None

ENGRAVER: Unknown

SIZE: 11 " x 8 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 2

PRICE: $950

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