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Browse All : Images of Slovakia and Germany from 1660
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Author
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Note
2 maps on 1 sheet. Top is Rhenvs Fluviorum: 1 map : copperplate engraving, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Scale bars in the top left, below a row of putti holding the arms of the provinces and states lining the river from source to estuary: the lands of the Helvetii (mythical?), Alsace, the Palatinate, the Archbishoprics of Mainz, Trier and Cologne, the Duchy of Cleves, and the Dutch provinces of Gelderland, Utrecht, and Holland. Dedication to Andries Bicker (1586-1652) in the top right corner, in a cartouche surmounted with Bicker's arms. Accompanied by a personfication of (?) Justice at the left. Title in the bottom right, on a tablet next to a pool filled by multiple river gods, with the infant Bacchus above. Together with the identically-sized map of the Danube pasted immediately below, this sheet was engraved as a replacement for two maps published in the earliest German editions of Blaeu's new atlas (1634 and 1635), which were no more than revised extracts from his wall chart of Germany. Both substitutes were first printed in the Latin, French and Dutch editions of the altas published in 1635, and continued to appear in permutations of the atlas until the early 1670s. Bottome map is Danvbivs, Fluvius Europæ Maximus: 1 map : copperplate engraving, hand colour. Title in the top right corner, flanked by groups of oppsing figures: at the left Faith and Philip II, and at the right a Turk and Irreligion, who treads on a crucifix. Scale bars in the bottom left corner, below a group of (occasionally Michelangelesque) river gods. Together with the identically-sized map of the Rhine pasted immediately above, this sheet was engraved as a replacement for two maps published in the earliest German editions of Blaeu's new atlas (1634 and 1635), which were no more than revised extracts from his wall chart of Germany. Both substitutes were first printed in the Latin, French and Dutch editions of the altas published in 1635, and continued to appear in permutations of the atlas until the early 1670s.
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