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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 In a sign of his reliance on Saxton, Danckerts has reproduced the (now outdated) Tudor arms in exactly the same place as Saxton, who in turn derived this detail from still earlier models, for example the small map of England by Richard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.
Author
Allardt, Hugo, -1691
Note
1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Arms of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in the top left corner, suspended on ribbons issuing from the longitude bar. Inner title in the bottom left corner of the map, in a confidently etched cartouche decorated with a ram's skull and two tiger heads, which support a seated wingless putto. Crowned arms of France, Flanders, the Dutch Republic and Norway along the bottom edge, over the appropriate territories. Inset map of Denmark at the bottom edge of the map, also oriented with north at the right. The framing cartouche is adorned with the arms of Christian IV of Denmark (?) and Allardt's imprint. Scale bars in the bottom right corner, in a cartouche adorned with two putti and a ram - a counterpoint to the ram's skull in the opposite cartouche. Map surrounded by three descriptions of Britain, in English (left), Dutch (bottom), and Latin (right). This is one of two surviving copies of what was only the third wall map covering the entire British Isles, which appeared almost a century after the first (Mercator, 1564). As Rodney Shirley has noted, Allardt used engravings by Stefano della Bella as source material for the designs of his cartouches. The distinctive tiger's heads above the title, for example, are based on an illustration from the fourth and final plate of a series of animal heads by della Bella, which was published by Pierre Mariette I sometime around 1641.
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