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Author
Danckerts, Cornelis, approximately 1603-1656
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 12 sheets, hand colour. Arms of the Tudor monarchs in the top right corner, on top of a decorative cartouche containing the title and dedication to Michael de Blond (or Blon, or Oblon), the Swedish Ambassador to England. Surrounding the inscription are various putti, who ride a dolphin (left), play with armour, sit on sheep (right), or support fruit swags hanging above Blond's arms (a saltire). Scale bars and imprint in a decorative cartouche in the bottom left. This is an impression of the first state of Danckerts' wall map, which was revised and reissued by his son Dancker around 1660. Confusingly, the 'Sanson' credited in the title is not Nicolas Sanson, Danckerts' famous contemporary, but probably Christopher Saxton, whose map of 1583 was clearly one of Danckerts' cartographic sources. In a sign of his reliance on Saxton, Danckerts has reproduced the (now outdated) Tudor arms in exactly the same place as Saxton, who in turn derived this detail from still earlier models, for example the small map of England by Richard Lyne (c. 1574). According to Rodney Shirley, Saxton's sheet was reissued sometime in the 1640s, and its timely reappearance might have spurred Danckerts to emulate it.
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