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The High Water Board of Delfland with all the cities, villages, trades, hamlets, polders, blocks, neighborhoods, homesteads, dwellings, orchards, gardens, fields, sluices, canals, streams, beaches, dunes, dikes, roads, quays, mills, bridges, lakes, ponds, waterways, etc. situated therein, mapped to scale in the year: MDCCXII, The High Water Board of Delfland, Map of the High Water Board of Delfland (eighteenth part), print, map, Eighteenth part of a map of the High Water Board of Delfland consisting of twenty-five parts., printmaker: Luggert van Anse, Delft, printmaker: Thomas Doesburgh, printmaker: Jacobus Deur, printmaker: Johannes Deur, surveyor: Nicolaas Cruquius, surveyor: Jacob Cruquius, commissioner (person who orders works): Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland, grantor of privilege: States of Holland and West Friesland, 1712 - 1735, commissioner (person who orders works), paper, engraving, etching, height 515 mm x width 593 mm, Person, maps of cities, Delfland., A detailed black-and-white cartographic map showing a network of narrow rectangular fields separated by thin lines, intersecting roads, canals, and small clusters of buildings. The map includes a long straight canal running diagonally from the top right toward the bottom center, with a series of densely packed, darkly shaded rectangular plots along its edge. Numerous thin meandering waterways and straight drains cross the area. Small groups of darkly hatched structures, isolated buildings, and farm-like symbols are scattered throughout the fields. Text labels appear across many parcels and along linear features. A decorative border surrounds the map, and scale markings and gridlines run along the outer margins. The overall palette is sepia-toned with fine line engraving and hatching for shading and texture.
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