Beschrijving
Caption: ‘De Onsterfelijcke Zeehelt Abraham vander Hulst, Viceadmirael van Hollant en Westvrieslant […]’.
Etching and engraving on laid paper, by Jan (or Johannes) de Visscher after his own design, made somewhere around 1666 (the year commemorated in the caption), sheet size: 531 x 372 mm., platemark: 508 x 356 mm. A small nick and light foxing in the margins, otherwise in very good condition. Abraham van der Hulst (Amsterdam, 11 April 1619 – 12 June 1666) was a Dutch admiral in the 17th century. Van der Hulst was appointed extraordinary captain in 1650. He served as captain of Groningen in the First Anglo-Dutch War, being promoted to full captain in 1653, becoming flag captain of Vice-Admiral Witte de With on Vrijheid, fighting in the Battle of the Gabbard and the Battle of Scheveningen.
Ref.: Hollstein 131 (2/II); LeBlanc 8; Muller 2635.
