TY - JOUR AU - van der Werff, Laurien PY - 2021/06/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Rotterodamum: Romeyn de Hooghe’s Rejected Map of Rotterdam Rediscovered JF - The Rijksmuseum Bulletin JA - RB VL - 69 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.52476/trb.10072 UR - https://bulletin.rijksmuseum.nl/article/view/10072 SP - 123-143 AB - <p>Having been asked by the burgomasters of Rotterdam to make a prestigious wall map of their city, the famous printmaker Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) initially supplied a disappointing product that the burgomasters rejected. It was known that this had happened, but what was not known is that a unique impression of the rejected map, titled <em>Rotterodamum</em>, survives in the Print Room’s collection. The discovery of <em>Rotterodamum</em> provided the opportunity to shed more light on De Hooghe’s commission, the production process and his working methods. <em>Rotterodamum</em> is thus an important link in the creation of the eventual, well-known map <em>Rotterdam met al syn gebouwen</em>, by De Hooghe and Johannes de Vouw (c. 1660-1707).</p> ER -