T Oost Indische Magazyn—Oostenburg, Amsterdam VOC shipyard—Mulder 1726 print

'T Oost Indische Magazyn, en Scheeps-Timmer-Werf [The East India Warehouse and Shipbuilding Yard] An evocative Amsterdam VOC view with exceptional modern provenance, acquired from the estate of Rex Cowan, the shipwreck explorer whose career was bound up with Dutch East India Company treasure wrecks. Mulder’s engraving shows the Oost-Indisch Zeemagazijn and shipyard on Oostenburg, the industrial heart of Amsterdam’s Asian trade, with vessels, wharves and warehouse activity along the IJ. For Cowan this was not simply a decorative city view: it represented the shore-side machinery behind the ships he pursued on the seabed, including the Amsterdam-built Hollandia, wrecked off the Isles of Scilly in 1743 and discovered by his team in 1971. A strong VOC subject, strengthened by direct provenance from one of the great modern figures in maritime archaeology