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Danckerts, Cornelis, approximately 1603-1656
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 4 sheets, hand colour. Scale bars in the top left, held above the waves by two sea creatures. Title in the top right, on a cartouche flanked by a personification, possibly of destruction, and an elderly armed knight. Perched above the ensemble are the arms of Cleves, Gelderland, Zutphen and 's-Hertogenbosch, arranged by winged putti. Imprint at the right edge, below the title. Language note: French, with a bilingual title in French and Dutch.
Author
[Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679, Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 20 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Arms of Holland in the top right corner, held above the waves by two bearded sea gods, one of whom also carries a smaller shield containing the arms of Aquitaine. Above is an inscription referring to Dirk I, long held to be the first Count of Holland, who was descended from the Counts of Aquitaine (see also Maps. K.A.R. (29.)). Tablet in the bottom left corner, listing one-hundred points indicated by figures. Scale bars on a cartouche at the bottom edge, accompanied by a gentleman with a pair of calipers and surveyor's chain (left), a trident, fishing rods and nets (centre), and a bearded man with a circle and other pair of calipers (right). The fishing equipment is surely a pun on Visscher's name, and similar motifs appear in several of his maps. Dedication to the Dutch provinces in a cartouche in the bottom right corner, surmounted with the enthroned personification of Holland, who holds a Dutch banner in her right hand and a small figure of winged Victory in her left, in imitation of Athena Parthenos. At her feet is the Dutch lion, and below, at the sides of the cartouche, is an armed knight and Neptune, apparently representing war and commerce. Row of nine town plans of cities in North or South Holland below the map, from left to right: Dordrecht, Haarlem, Delft, Leiden, Amsterdam, Gouda, Rotterdam, Alkmaar and Enkhuizen. These designs were copied from Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn's Theatrum Sive Hollandiae (Amsterdam, 1632), but by the time this map was published in the 1650s several were outdated, notably Amsterdam, which had expanded in the intervening decades. Woodcut title below, sandwiched in between the town plans and a description of Holland, which carries the imprint of Jacob Aertz Colom ('boek-verkooper op 't Water, 1640'). G. Schilder, Monumenta Cartographia Neerlandica, vol. 5, Alphen, 1986, pp. 315-9 (this state, this copy p. 316) British Museum, Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829
Author
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 9 sheets, hand colour. Title in the top left, on a cartouche below the arms of Zeeland, which are held above the waves by two humanoid sea creatures carrying oars. Scale bar (blooise roede) at the left edge, below the title. Second scale bar towards the bottom of the map, also in blooise roede, on a long, floating tablet occupied by a woman, a seal, and a fisherman with a rod. This last detail recurs in several of Visscher's maps, and is surely a double pun on both his name (the Dutch for fisherman is 'visser') and the unit of measurement (roede, or rod).
Author
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679, cartographer.
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title in the top right, in a cartouche crowned with the ducal coronet of Brabant. Scale bar (rijnlandse roeden) in the bottom left, accompanied by a fisherman holding two rods and a pair of calipers. This detail recurs in several Visscher's maps, and is surely a pun on both his name (the Dutch for fisherman is 'visser') and the unit of measurement ('roede', or rod). See also 004842055 and 004967543.
Author
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title in the top left corner, on a banner held above the water by tritons and winged putti, and crowned with the arms of Flanders. Illustration of Neptune on his sea chariot, accompanied by Peace, who carries a large shield impaled with the arms of the Spanish Netherlands and United Provinces. The motif is completed by a banner attached to Neptune's trident, which bears the date 1648, a reference to the Treaty of Münster and the conclusion of the Eighty Years' War. Scale bar (rijnlandse roeden) at the bottom, accompanied by a fisherman holding two rods and a pair of calipers. This detail recurs in several of Visscher's maps, and is surely a pun on both his name (the Dutch for fisherman is 'visser') and the unit of measurement (roede, or rod). See also 004807865 and 004967543.
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