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Ortelius, Abraham

Creta Iouis magni, medio iacet insula ponto. Ex conatibus geographicis Abrahami Ortelii.

Antique Creta Iouis magni, medio iacet insula ponto. Ex conatibus geographicis Abrahami Ortelii.
€495.00

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Eigenschaften
  • Juan Baptist Vrients , Antwerp
  • 1612
  • Antique Map, map
  • Copper engraving / handcolored.
  • 1612
  • 342 by 491mm (13 by 19 inches).
  • Broe. 217
  • 13729
  • In excellent condition.

Article description

Article description

Original antique copper engraving, decorative hand colored. Published 1612 in the historical Atlas "Parergon" by Abraham Ortelius bound with his famous "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum". Finely hand-colored in wash and outline. Four maps on one plate: Corsica, the Ionian Islands (Cephalonia, Zacynthus, Corcyra), Sardinia and Crete. Villages and towns are shown as miniature views, moreover the map at the bottom is ornated with ships, sea monsters and animals. At the bottom we find two cartouches with listings of antique place names and explanations. A very good example in excellent condition. Ortelius was born on 14 April 1527 in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1535, the family had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism. Following the death of Ortelius's father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren, who would later moved to London. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy. He travelled extensively in Europe and is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces; in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576); France (1559–1560); England and Ireland (1576); and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558). Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair, where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554. In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator's influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer. (Wikipedia)

Broe. 217


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