Jan Huygen van Linschoten was a Dutch spy, merchant, traveller and writer.
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Portrait of Jan Huygen van Linschoten, from the princeps edition of his Itinerario.
Joannes van Doetecum's print of "The Market at Goa" in Linschoten's Itinerario, showing the main street of Portuguese Goa in the 1580s
A fusta with Portuguese pavilion from a book by Jan Huygen van Linschoten
The island of Terceira, Azores, in a hand-colored engraving in the Itinerario.
Plaque painted by Karel van Mander commemorating whalebone given to Haarlem by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten from Willem Barentsz expedition.
Barentz flagship Gulden Windthunde nearly collided with that of the Vice Admiral. Linschoten on the latter. 6 August 1595Writers born in the 1560s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1563 to 1611 · aged 48
Written about in
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