Vintage Design
Published in Antwerp, 1595.
A very nice example of one of the most famous printed maps, renowned for its depiction of over a dozen exotic sea-monsters (with a key referring to a list on verso), polar bears on iceflows and the volcano Hekla in the interior.
Ortelius based the cartography on a map by Gudbrandur Thorlaksson (1542-1627), Lutheran bishop of Hólar, which was the most accurate up to that time.
However, he augmented the map with the sea monsters from the very rare woodcut ‘Carta Marina’ of Scandinavia by Olaus Magnus, 1539.
Ortelius’s version first appeared in an atlas in 1587, in the ‘Additamentum IV’, an appendix of 22 new maps not featured in the last full ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’.
VAN DEN BROECKE: 161.
| Creator |
Abraham Ortelius |
|---|---|
| Design Period | Before 1890 |
| Year | 1595 |
| Production Period | Before 1890 |
| Country of Manufacture | Belgium |
| Identifying Marks | This piece has an attribution mark |
| Style | Antique |
| Detailed Condition | |
| Product Code | ZHV-1913633 |
| Restoration and Damage Details |
Latin text edition. Original colour with additions.
|
| Materials | Engraving |
| Color | Multicolored |
| Width |
4 cm 1.6 inch |
| Depth |
1 cm 0.0 inch |
| Height |
39 cm 15.4 inch |
| Duties Notice | Import duty is not included in the prices you see online. You may have to pay import duties upon receipt of your order. |
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