Geographische beschryvinge van T'Beloodfe-Landt Canaan
| Reference: | S4995 |
| Author | Nicolas VISSCHER II |
| Year: | 1660 ca. |
| Zone: | The Holy Land |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 485 x 322 mm |
€225.00
| Reference: | S4995 |
| Author | Nicolas VISSCHER II |
| Year: | 1660 ca. |
| Zone: | The Holy Land |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 485 x 322 mm |
€225.00
Description
Geographische Beschryvinge van t'Beloofde-Landt Canaan, door Wandelt van onsen Heere ende Salichmaecker Iesu Christo nessens syne Apostelen van nieus gecorigeert ende seer verbetert door Iacob Savery Ao 1648.
Fine Bible map of the Holy Land by or after Visscher.
Highly detailed with numerous place names, rivers, mountains, and regions. The sea is filled with fishing boats, the track of Apostle Paul's journey, and a compass rose. Sodom and Gomorrah shown in the Dead Sea.
Decorated with a vignette of the crucifixion at top left and a decorative title cartouche. Further with an embellished distance scale.
Nicolas VISSCHER II (1649 - 1702)
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For nearly a century the members of the Visscher family were important art dealers and map publishers in Amsterdam. The founder of the business, C. J. Visscher, had premises near to those of Pieter van den Keere and Jodocus Hondius whose pupil he may have been. From about 1620 he designed a number of individual maps, including one of the British Isles, but his first atlas consisted of maps printed from plates bought from van den Keere and issued as they stood with some additions of his own, including historical scenes of battles and sieges for which he had a high reputation. Some maps bear the latinized form of the family name: Piscator. After Visscher's death his son and grandson, both of the same name, issued a considerable number of atlases, constantly revised and brought up to date but most of them lacking an index and with varying contents. The widow of Nicholaes Visscher II carried on the business until it finally passed into the hands of Pieter Schenk.
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Nicolas VISSCHER II (1649 - 1702)
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For nearly a century the members of the Visscher family were important art dealers and map publishers in Amsterdam. The founder of the business, C. J. Visscher, had premises near to those of Pieter van den Keere and Jodocus Hondius whose pupil he may have been. From about 1620 he designed a number of individual maps, including one of the British Isles, but his first atlas consisted of maps printed from plates bought from van den Keere and issued as they stood with some additions of his own, including historical scenes of battles and sieges for which he had a high reputation. Some maps bear the latinized form of the family name: Piscator. After Visscher's death his son and grandson, both of the same name, issued a considerable number of atlases, constantly revised and brought up to date but most of them lacking an index and with varying contents. The widow of Nicholaes Visscher II carried on the business until it finally passed into the hands of Pieter Schenk.
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