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The wealthy merchant and diplomat Jeronimo Nunes da Costa (Mozes Curiël) was born in Florence in 1620. In 1627, his family settled in Hamburg, where his father, a businessman, became an important…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1700
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Angel Jacobo Jesurun’s topographical map of Caracas, with its geometric grid, is the first map after Venezuela’s independence to be drawn and printed by a native of the city. After decades of war and…
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Caracas, State of Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela)
Date:
1843
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Statesman, merchant, and communal leader Baron Manuel (Isaac Nunes) de Belmonte was Spanish agent general in the Netherlands from 1664 and resident (consul) of the King of Spain from 1674. He…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1700