Sicilia Regnum
Reference: | S44757 |
Author | Johannes JANSSONIUS |
Year: | 1645 ca. |
Zone: | Sicily |
Printed: | Amsterdam |
Measures: | 505 x 405 mm |
Reference: | S44757 |
Author | Johannes JANSSONIUS |
Year: | 1645 ca. |
Zone: | Sicily |
Printed: | Amsterdam |
Measures: | 505 x 405 mm |
Description
The map is first published in Novus Atlas, Das ist Welt-beschreibung mit shönen newen außfürlichen Taffeln inhaltende die Königreiche und Länder des gantzen Erdtreichs. Amsterdami, Apud Iohannem Ianßonium. Anno 1644.
This example, with the Latin text on the verso, is from Ioannis Ianssonii Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum In Quatuor Tomos Distinctus printed in Amsterdam in 1647.
“Il rame del 1645 è una copia pressoché fedele della carta di Mercatore del 1589, vi sono solo alcune significative aggiunte negli apparati decorativi con l'inserimento di una figura femminile, ripresa dall'analoga carta di Blaeu del 1635, lo stemma della corona di Sicilia e una serie di tritoni e divinità marine poste a contorno della scala grafica. Il rame passò nelle mani degli stampatori Valck e Schenk che la rimisero in commercio con la sola aggiunta del reticolo geografico e la variazione dei dati editoriali. Le coordinate sono diverse da quelle utilizzate per la Sicilia di Mercatore - per cui Messina passa da 37° 55' a 34° 55' – e sembrano riferirsi piuttosto alle isole del Capo Verde” (cfr. La Collezione Spagnolo-Patermo in quattro secoli di cartografia, pp. 253-255).
Joannes Janssonius (Arnhem, 1588-1664), son of the Arnhem publisher Jan Janssen, married Elisabeth Hondius, daughter of Jodocus Hondius, in Amsterdam in 1612. After his marriage, he settled down in this town as a bookseller and publisher of cartographic material. In 1618 he established himself in Amsterdam next door to Blaeu’s book shop. He entered into serious competition with Willem Jansz. Blaeu.. His activities not only concerned the publication of atlases and books, but also of single maps and an extensive book trade with branches in Frankfurt, Danzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Koningsbergen, Geneva, and Lyon. In 1631 he began publishing atlases together with Henricus Hondius. In the early 1640s Henricus Hondius left the atlas publishing business completely to Janssonius. Competition with Joan Blaeu, Willem’s son and successor, in atlas production prompted Janssonius to enlarge his Atlas Novus finally into a work of six volumes, into which a sea atlas and an atlas of the Old World were inserted. After the death of Joannes Janssonius, the shop and publishing firm were continued by the heirs under the direction of Johannes van Waesbergen (c. 1616-1681), son-in-law of Joannes Janssonius. The copperplates from Janssonius’s atlases were afterwards sold to Schenk and Valck.
Etching with beautiful contemporary coloring, slight browning of paper, otherwise in excellent condition.
Bibliografia
V. Valerio in Sicilia 1477-1861, La Collezione Spagnolo-Patermo in quattro secoli di cartografia, pp. 253-255, n. 96.
Johannes JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)
Johannes Janssonius, more commonly known to us as Jan Jansson, was born in Arnhem where his father was a bookseller and publisher (Jan Janszoon the Elder). In 1612 he married the daughter of the cartographer and publisher Jodocus Hondius, and then set up in business in Amsterdam as a book publisher. In 1616 he published his first maps of France and Italy and from then onwards he produced a very large number of maps, perhaps not quite rivalling those of the Blaeu family but running a very close second in quantity and quality. From about 1630 to 1638 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, issuing further editions of the Mercator/Hondius atlases to which his name was added. On the death of Henricus he took over the business, expanding the atlas still further, until eventually he published an 11-volume Atlas Major on a scale similar to Blaeu's Atlas Major.
The first full edition of Jansson's English County Maps was published in 1646 but some years earlier he issued a number of British maps in the Mercator/Hondius/Jansson series of atlases (1636-44); the maps were printed from newly engraved plates and are different from the later 1646 issue and are now rarely seen (see Appendix B for further details).
In general appearance Jansson's maps are very similar to those of Blaeu and, in fact, were often copied from them, but they tend to be more flamboyant and, some think, more decorative.
After Jansson's death his heirs published a number of maps in an Atlas Contractus in 1666 and later still many of the plates of his British maps were acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valck, who published them again in 1683 as separate maps.
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Johannes JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)
Johannes Janssonius, more commonly known to us as Jan Jansson, was born in Arnhem where his father was a bookseller and publisher (Jan Janszoon the Elder). In 1612 he married the daughter of the cartographer and publisher Jodocus Hondius, and then set up in business in Amsterdam as a book publisher. In 1616 he published his first maps of France and Italy and from then onwards he produced a very large number of maps, perhaps not quite rivalling those of the Blaeu family but running a very close second in quantity and quality. From about 1630 to 1638 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, issuing further editions of the Mercator/Hondius atlases to which his name was added. On the death of Henricus he took over the business, expanding the atlas still further, until eventually he published an 11-volume Atlas Major on a scale similar to Blaeu's Atlas Major.
The first full edition of Jansson's English County Maps was published in 1646 but some years earlier he issued a number of British maps in the Mercator/Hondius/Jansson series of atlases (1636-44); the maps were printed from newly engraved plates and are different from the later 1646 issue and are now rarely seen (see Appendix B for further details).
In general appearance Jansson's maps are very similar to those of Blaeu and, in fact, were often copied from them, but they tend to be more flamboyant and, some think, more decorative.
After Jansson's death his heirs published a number of maps in an Atlas Contractus in 1666 and later still many of the plates of his British maps were acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valck, who published them again in 1683 as separate maps.
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