[Alblasserwaard wall map] "Caerte vertoonende de Landen etc. van den Overwaert,

gelegen binnen den ringdijk van den Alblasserwaert. Uytgegeven door order van de Edele Heeren Erfwatergraaf en water Heemraden van den selven Overwaert in't Jaer MDCCVI." (cartouche title). "Het Heemraatschap van den Overwaart Groot 12728 1/6 mergen; gesticht by hertog Albrecht van Beyereb, Ao. 1366." (upper title). Engraved wall map by Mattheus van Nispen (surveyor) and Jan van Vianen (engraver), printed on 4 loose, large-folio bifolia (leaf size 56.5 x 66 cm), with the engraved decorative title "Caarte van den Overwaart" printed on 2 separate leaves of 21.5 x 56.5 cm each, an allegorical, engraved scene at the bottom printed on 2 separate leaves of 28.5 x 67 cm each, and 4 engraved side festoons printed on 2 separate leaves of 19 x 54 cm each.

We traced several digitised copies online with coats of arms of the dijkgraven incorporated into the border in various ways, but without the festoons. Several minimal defects in the head title and one part of the bottom scene present in two copies. Harmsen, De beknopte lant-meet-konst, 24.10; Donkersloot-de Vrij, Topografische kaarten van Nederland vóór 1750, no. 807. Splendid wall map, total mounted size ± 72 x 105 cm without the edges. Added to this are the decorative title and the further border decorations with another ± 15 cm in width and ± 32 cm in height. The very rare map depicts the area between the cities of Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Nieuwpoort/ Schoonhoven. (total 13)