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Engraving of Todos os Santos Bay from 1671 Explained
Baía de Todos os Santos, Brazil – 1671 – Montanus’ work was perhaps the greatest illustrated book of the New World produced in the 17th century. It contained more than a hundred beautifully engraved plates, views and maps of North and South America. The plates vividly depicted forts, festivals, occupations, Dutch fleets, battles, religious rites and native customs. This important work was translated into German by Olivier Dapper and into English by John Ogilby. Several of the plates were later acquired by Pierre Vander Aa. This is a superb view of Todos os Santos Bay with Salvador da Bahia in the background. The engraving shows the region when the Dutch were trying to gain control of the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and their lucrative sugar trade. In 1624, the Dutch captured and looted Salvador da Bahia and held it, along with other ports in the northeast, until it was recaptured by a Spanish-Portuguese fleet. The city then played a strategic role in the Portuguese-Brazilian resistance against the Dutch in the 1630s. This view is taken from the work of Frans Post. His works are among the earliest European paintings of Brazil and were eagerly reproduced in print by Dutch engravers. “Sinus Omnium Sanctoru”, Montanus, Arnoldus
Engraving of Todos os Santos Bay from 1671, Brazil
Montanus’s work was perhaps the greatest illustrated book on the New World produced in the 17th century.
It contained over a hundred beautifully engraved plates, views and maps of North and South America.
The plates vividly depicted forts, festivals, occupations, Dutch fleets, battles, religious rites and native customs.
This important work was translated into German by Olivier Dapper and into English by John Ogilby.
Several of the plates were later acquired by Pierre Vander Aa.
This is a superb view of Todos os Santos Bay with Salvador da Bahia in the background.
The engraving shows the region when the Dutch were trying to gain control of the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and their lucrative sugar trade.
In 1624, the Dutch captured and sacked Salvador da Bahia and held it, along with other ports in the north-east, until it was recaptured by a Spanish-Portuguese fleet.
The city then played a strategic role in the Portuguese-Brazilian resistance against the Dutch in the 1630s.
This view is taken from the work of Frans Post. His works are among the earliest European paintings of Brazil and were eagerly reproduced in print by Dutch engravers. “Sinus Omnium Sanctoru”, Montanus, Arnoldus
Engraving of All Saints Bay from 1671 – Historical Maps of Brazil
Written by Willy Sievert
Editor of Bahia.ws since its founding in 2009. Based in Salvador, he travels frequently across the Northeast and all of Brazil to keep the guides up to date. Learn more about Willy Sievert →
