The firm of Van Keulen was founded around 1678 by Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715) and in 1680 he published the ‘Zee Atlas’. The multi volume ‘Zee Fakkel’ followed soon after. On his 50th birthday he left the management of the firm to his talented son Gerard (1678-1726). One of a handful of charts with similar title covering the Aegean Sea, an inset upper left depicts Schiro. This one is with the plate number ‘XIV’. It depicts the south west coast of Turkey from the island of Chios in the north west to Rhodes and extends south west to the tip of Crete. An inset to the left of the title features a plan of the main harbour of Rhodes and is entitled ‘De Stadt en Haven van Rhodus’. This example is from the third part of ‘De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel’ dated 1724 which covered the Mediterranean Sea. De Vries, Schilder etc. ‘The Van Keulen Cartography Amsterdam 1680-1885’, pp. 44 & 202-5; Koeman IV p. 372 no. 114; Koeman ‘The Sea on Paper’ p. 37-8 no. 17; Zacharakis, C. #1174.