Description This very rare print shows a view on a ship from Japan which they call Champan. “On the third of December while we were at anchor [outside Manila Bay], we became aware of a big sail on the horizon. The yacht [Eendragt] met them and brought their captain and some of the officers to our admiral [Mauritius]. It was one of the ships from Japan, of which the Chinese captain had told us. They were mostly carrying iron and flour which they load in Japan and come to Manila to sell. Their ship was about 50 lasts in size and had left Japan 25 days ago, accompanied by three other ships that they lost sight of in a tempest. The ships are of a very strange design. The front is flat like a chimney. The sails are made of reed mats, they have wooden anchors, and the cordage is made of straw. They are very skillful in sailing them.” [translated from the original Dutch narrative of van Noort] Made by Batista van Doetecum after Benjamin Wright. Medium: engraving on handlaid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 23 x 17.5 cm (9.06 x 6.89 inch). Image size: 22.5 x 14.7 cm. (8.86 x 5.79 inch). Condition: good, given age. Brown spots. Creases. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. JAPANESE SHIP-CHAMPAN-VAN NOORT-VOYAGE-EENDRAGT-PHILLIPINES-DUTCH | RBOS-A10-39 BACKGROUND INFORMATION This attractive print was first published by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam in 1602, to accompany Olivier van Noort’s ‘Beschryvinghe vande voyagie om den geheelen werelt cloot’. From ‘Begin Ende Voortgangh van de …'[V.O.C.], [Beginning and Progress of the Dutch East India Company…] Chapter: Schipvaerd Olivier van Noort… 1598-1601, p. 32 / 33. Extensively illustrated collection of journals by 21 navigators to the East and West Indies, pl. 17. . Reference: Pardo de Tavera and Phillips; book (Commelin): 1st ed. 1645, 2nd/3rd and best: 1646. Landwehr, VOC, 250; Cat. NHSM I, p.105; Tiele 81; Tiele, M?moire pp.9-15; European Americana, II, p.463; Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making, III,1, pp.461- 473; Cox I, p.9; Cordier, B.S., III, col. 2340. Sabin 14960. Biography engraver: Batista van Doetecum (1570-1611) was a Dutch graphic artist, etcher, book printer, cartographer, bookseller, copper engraver, printer, publisher, engraver, printmaker.
