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Browse All : Images by Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 of Gaul from 1660
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Author
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title at the top, outside the map. Arms of Louis XIV in the top right corner (both France and Navarre, set into one shield). Single scale bar at the bottom edge, over the Mediterranean sea. Map surrounded by three descriptions of France on separate pieces of paper, in Latin (left), Dutch (bottom), and French (right). All carry Blaeu's imprint at the bottom.
Author
[Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667, Tavernier, Melchior, 1594-1665, Cordier, Robert]
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Dedication in the top right corner, to Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême (1573-1650), illegitimate son of Charles IX. Short introduction to the map, including its classical sources, in the bottom left corner, in a decorative cartouche flanked by Mercury and Hercules, who stand on the branches of a shrub. Below, obscuring the trunk issuing these branches, is subsidiary cartouche noting Sanson's royal privilege. Two small scale bars along the bottom edge of the map. Cordier's signature in the bottom right, on a small sheet suspended from a hook. Surrounded by Latin descriptions of the regions of Gaul, formed into a u-shape around the map, with an extract from the text of the royal privilege in the bottom right corner, above Tavernier's imprint.
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