Engraving plate with a representation of the stock exchange in Amsterdam, The plate shows the courtyard of Hendrick de Keyser built stock exchange in Amsterdam again. At the top a banderole with the inscription in mirror image: BYRSA AMSTERO DAMENSIS. At the bottom is a rectangular field decorated with scrollwork at the top with in the center Amsterdam, seen from the IJ and left and right two six-line poems in the Dutch and Latin languages. To the left of the Amsterdam coat of arms, the inscription: 'PLeijenaar excu.', To the bottom, in the middle, the inscription: 'Isack Houwens excudit.' The plate was given the shape of a salver at a later date and three holes were drilled at the top to allow it to be hung on the wall, Claes Jansz. (I) Visscher (fictieve kunstenaar), Northern Netherlands, after 1611, copper (metal), engraving, w 33 cm × h 24.5 cm × d 0.8 cm
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