Asia, of, Naukeurige beschryving van het rijk des Grooten Mogols, en een groot gedeelte van Indien ...
A 1672 Dutch account of the Mughal empire and much of India, compiled by Olfert Dapper and issued in Amsterdam by Jacob van Meurs for a Dutch reading public curious about Asia. The four plates show battle scenes, a mounted horse above a rocky bridge, a palanquin procession and a walled city beneath hills, all drawn in dense engraved line with strong contrast. A designer could take from them the crowded, dynamic compositions of engraved travel-book narrative, with figures in layered groups against landscape.
