Historical sources
This first view shows a selection of historical sources used for the reconstruction of this building. The following steps of the tour focus on each source independently.
Disclaimer: not all visual historical sources with a depiction of this building are included.
The images are all originating from the Amsterdam City Archives Image Database.
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Illustrations used
The numbers correspond to the annotations in the 3D viewer.
- 1733 after original 1656, document in honour of the opening of the new orphanage
- ca. 1650 - 1700, by anonymous
- ca. 1670, by Romeyn de Hooghe
- ca. 1690, by Johannes van Call
- 1785, by H.P. Schouten
- 1818, by Gerrit Lamberts
- 1832, Cadastral mapping
- 1844, by Johannes Jacobus Antonius Hilverdink
- ca. 1857, by Peter Oosterhuis
- ca. 1885, by G.J.B. Haentjens
- 1867-1888, by Pieter Oosterhuis