Jakob van der Schley (1715–1779) - View of Fuzhou, Capital of Fujian, with the Bridge over the Min, Schley – Engraving (c. 1750)

"Fu Chew Fu, of Hoksyew, Hoofdstad van Fo-kyen" is a copperplate engraving by Jakob van der Schley after the view published by Arnoldus Montanus, from the Dutch edition of Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages, published in The Hague by Pieter de Hondt. Fuzhou lies in a river valley among mountains, with its walls, roofs and the long many-arched bridge over the Min, and travellers on the road in the foreground.

Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages gathered the European accounts of travel in Africa, Asia and America; its Dutch edition, Historische Beschryving der Reizen, published in The Hague by Pieter de Hondt from 1747, added plates engraved by van der Schley with captions in French and Dutch.

Jakob van der Schley (1715-1779) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver in Amsterdam and The Hague, a pupil of Bernard Picart, and one of the most prolific Dutch book illustrators of the mid-eighteenth century.

Artist or Maker: Jakob van der Schley
Dimensions: Approximately 25 cm x 37 cm (9.8 in x 14.6 in)
Medium: Copperplate engraving
Date: c. 1750
SKU: prevost_auc

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