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Rex Abissinarum (The King of the Abyssinians)

Rex Abissinarum (The King of the Abyssinians)

6796A
Artist
Workshop of Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1571-1638)
Title
Rex Abissinarum (The King of the Abyssinians)
Date
1606-1607
Medium
Etching. This is an ornamental detail of the Nova Orbis Terrarum, a wall map etched in four plates in and published in 1607 by Blaeu in Amsterdam sub signo Solarii deaurati.
Photo Source
No complete version of this map is extant. There is, however, a 9 x 13cm photograph thereof at the Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaart-Museum in Amsterdam. This photograph was discovered, enlarged, and published by Günter Schilder in 1979. Our image was taken from this publication (cf. Schilder 1979, 38).
Item
6796A
Correspondences
Archive: 6796A/6796B
Archive: 6796A/6796B
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