Jacob van Meurs

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Jacob van Meurs (1619/1620 - c. 1680) was a Dutch engraver and publisher from Amsterdam.{{Cite book |last=Harris |first=Leslie M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZx6A_M0yjQC&pg=PA20 |title=In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 |date=2004-08-01 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-31775-5 |pages=20 |language=en}} His works are in the National Gallery of Art{{Cite web |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6270.html |title=Artist Info - Jacob von Meurs |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=March 17, 2020}} and the National Portrait Gallery.{{Cite web |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp88722/jacob-van-meurs |title=Jacob van Meurs - National Portrait Gallery |website=National Portrait Gallery |language=en |access-date=March 17, 2020}} Active from 1651 to 1680, he specialized in works of geography, travelogues, and history. He published the first version of The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland which was printed in Dutch and included 125 copper engravings.{{Cite web |url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/518/ |title=The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland |date=1671 |website=www.wdl.org |access-date=March 17, 2020}}