Afbeelaing van verscheyde Brandspuyten met buygsame Zuygbuyzen aan d'eene en lange Leere Spuytslangen ... [print].

Plate 3 of Supplement: Presentation of five different fire-engines; five apparatus installed on the quay of the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in front of the town hall of Amsterdam (now Royal Palace) with a statue of Atlas on the roof; fire-fighters holding the hoses and demonstrating the different capacities of the engines; lettered A-E within composition indicating different fire-engines; after a preparatory drawing by Jan van der Heyden; illustration to Jan van der Heyden's "Beschryving der nieuwlijks uitgevonden en geoctrojeerde Slang-Brand-Spuiten" (Amsterdam: 1690-1735).
Lettered in lower margin with Dutch key to the letters A-E from within composition, describing the different fire-engines. Lettered above image (on separate plate) with Dutch title: "Afbeelding van verscheyde Brandspuyten, met buygsame Zuygbuyzen / aan d'eene en lange Leere Spuytslangen aan d'andre zyde: welke het / Water te gelyk uyt de Watergraften optrekken, langs de Straaten / voortdreeven en in den Brandt uytspuyten. Nevens aanwyzing hoedaanig / de Zelve in de Jaaren 1672 en 1673. door de vander Heydens, publicq / achter 't Stadhuys, aan d'Ed'le Groot Achtbaare REGERING VAN AMSTERDAM, / zyn vertoondt: werdende 't Water daar meede teffen uyt de Voorburgwal / opgetrokken, en door en over 't Stadhuys heen gedreeven en gespuyt.".
One of six additional illustrations to the supplement of van der Heyden's book from 1690, of which one is signed "I. Scherm, sculp.". It can therefore be assumed that they were probably all engraved by Laurens Scherm.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Library has 3 of the 6 additional illustrations to van der Heyden's supplement (2 copies of plate 5).
This item is bound into PML 63061 with 12 other prints/broadsides relating to fire extinction and fire engines.