6799A

Nova Orbis Terrarum

Artist: Workshop of Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1571-1638)
Title: Nova Orbis Terrarum
Date: 1606-1607
Medium: A wall map etched in four plates. Published in 1607 by Blaeu in Amsterdam sub signo Solarii deaurati. 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.
Photo Source: Schilder 1979, 38.
Item: 6799A

Correspondences: Archive: 6799A/6799B; Archive: 6799A/6799B; Archive: 6799A/6799B