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WENCESLAUS HOLLAR (1607-77)
America.
dated 1666RCIN 805167
Hollar’s map of the Americas was made shortly before the Treaty of Breda (1667) through which Suriname was confirmed as a Dutch colony. Suriname is in the area marked ‘GVIANA’, and is labelled ‘Sorename’.