Jan van der Heyden,  Dutch Baroque-era painter, draughtsman, printmaker and inventor, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter
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Jan van der Heyden, Dutch Baroque-era painter, draughtsman, printmaker and inventor, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter

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Jan van der Heyden, Dutch Baroque-era painter, draughtsman, printmaker and inventor, c1870. Van der Heyden (1637-1712) improved the design of the fire hose and wrote and illustrated the first manual on firefighting. He designed a streetlighting system for Amsterdam that was implemented in 1669 and remained in use until 1840. It was copied in many other towns and cities both in the Netherlands and abroad. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J van Lenner and J ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870).
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Date

1870

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19C48_136

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,3Mo (6,3Mo) / 32,6cm x 38,7cm / 3849 x 4572 (300dpi)

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