PEETERS, Jacob. Description des principales villes, havres et isles du golfe de Venise du coté oriental. Comme aussi des villes et forteresses de la Moree, et quelques places de la Grèce..., Antwerp, Sur le marché des vieux Souliers, [1690?].
Flemish engraver and book-seller, Jacob Peeters (1637-1695) was descended from a family of artists. He kept a shop in Antwerp, where he “sold every kind of prints and engravings, small and larger geographical maps, drawn in ink, coloured, as well as of a larger size...” Peeters is known mainly for his “World Atlas”, published in 1692.
The album forms part of a series of dithyrambic publications, which exalted the brilliant victories of the Venetians on the Ottomans. Similar books were published by the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, which had been founded by Vincenzo Coronelli.
The plates of the edition were based on drawings by Jacob Peeters' brother, Johannes or Jan Peeters (1625-1677), who made several views of cities, later etched by Merian. Johannes was a pupil of their older brother, Bonaventura Peeters, also a very well-known painter who specialized in seascapes.
Most of the plates were etched by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695), a well-known books merchant and engraving master. The description of each city and subject is given at the beginning of the edition, while each copy of the work includes a different number of plates. There are plates showing locations, cities and ports at Montenegro, Albania, Croatia, the Ionian and Aegean seas, Central Greece (the Peloponnese, Attica and Thessaly), Asia Minor, Syria, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Turkey, Yemen, Irak, Armenia, the Caspian Sea and other places all the way to Iran and India.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
Subjects (114)
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Title page. Allegory of Venice's victory in the Sixth Venetian-Ottoman war (1684–99).
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Ottoman emblem taken by the Venetians as trophy after they conquered Koroni in 1685.
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View of Ulcinj, Montenegro, besieged by the Venetian army during the Sixth Venetian-Ottoman war.
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View of Durrës, Albania, besieged by the Venetian army during the Sixth Venetian-Ottoman war.
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Plan of the castle of Santa Maura at Lefkada island. Map of the surrounding area.
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View of the castle of Agios Georgios, older capital of Cephalonia, with its suburb (borgo).
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The strait of Rion-Antirrion, with plans of the fortresses at the strait.
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View of Pylos (Niokastro) during the Sixth Venetian-Ottoman War.
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Map of Cythera with reference to the Sixth Venetian-Ottoman War.
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Map of the port of Cythera (Kapsali) with the Venetian fortress.
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Vie of Kilitbahir castle on the European coast of the Hellespont.
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View of Sultaniye castle on the Asian coast of the Hellespont.
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Mount Carmel with the cave of the Prophets and the monastery of Carmel on its summit.
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View of Nazareth with the Orthodox Basilica of the Annunciation.
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View of Abydos and Kilitbahir castle on the European coast of the Hellespont.
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View of the village of Selçuk near ancient Ephesus. In the background, Selçuk (Ayasulluk) castle.
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View of the walls of Nineveh at the ancient region of Assyria (today Irak).
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View of city in ancient Mesopotamia, possibly at Sahrizor plain.
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View of city in northern Mesopotamia, possibly Bitlis in eastern Turkey.
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View of the city and castle of Derbent, also known as Caspian Gates, Russia.
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View of Tbilisi (Tiflis), Georgia. On the left, Narikala castle.
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The cathedral of Etchmiadzin (4th century) at Vagharshapat, Armenia.
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