Afbeelding van de Lieve-Vrouwe Tooren van Andwerpen ... [print].

Plate 6 of Supplement: Fire-fighting demonstration at the Cathedral in Antwerp; view of the square in front of the cathedral with fire-fighters trying to fight a fire in one of the town houses in right foreground, pumps pumping water from a reservoir at left and connected with hoses to different fire-engines, a demonstration on the tower of the cathedral with a fire-engine place midway at the top of a staircase seen in cross-section; lettered A-D within composition indicating different locations; 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 a frame at left, with Dutch key to the letters A-D from within composition, describing the different parts of the composition. Lettered above image (on separate plate) with Dutch title: "Afbeelding van de Lieve-Vrouwe Tooren van / Andwerpen, aan welke hier vertoondt wordt, op wat wyze alle hooge Toorens voor het afbranden / konnen beveyligt werden, door het stellen van / een kleyne spuyt ter halver hoogte op den / Toorn; welke (in 't gebruyk) het Water van / beneeden door eeen and're Spuyt werdt toegebragt.".
One of the 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 has 3 of the six 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.