DENMARK & SOUTHERN SWEDEN 1584 ORTELIUS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
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DENMARK & SOUTHERN SWEDEN 1584 ORTELIUS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP:
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DENMARK & SOUTHERN SWEDEN 1584 ORTELIUS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP DENMARK & SOUTHERN SWEDEN 1584 ORTELIUS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP Description
Daniae Regnum Typus.
The map is based on the maps by Olaus Magnus and Cornelis Anthonisz.
Cornelis Anthonisz., Anthonisz. (Anthony\'s son) also spelled Anthonissen or Teunissen (ca. 1505 – 1553), was a Dutch painter, engraver, and mapmaker.
Anthonisz. was born in Amsterdam around 1505. He was a grandchild of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, who probably taught him to paint, and a cousin of Dirck Jacobsz. In 1538 he painted the first complete map of Amsterdam as a commission from the city fathers to present as a gift to Charles V.
He is known mostly for his woodcuts, especially the Bird\'s eye view of Amsterdam, from 1544. This was printed in 12 blocks of wood, and was recopied and reprinted as an accurate map until well into the 17th century. Unfortunately, this became severely damaged in a fire in the Amsterdam city hall in 1652, but it was restored in 1932. Many of the buildings in this painting still stand today.
Olaus Magnus (October 1490 – 1 August 1557) was a Swedish writer and Catholic ecclesiastic.
Date: 1584 ( undated )
Condition: Very strong and dark impression on strong paper. paper with chains. Map old original colored. Wide top and lower margins. Wide left lateral margin. Right lateral margin missed. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images.
Mapmaker: Born in Antwerp in 1528, Abraham Ortel went on to study the Classics: Latin and Greek and then mathematics before setting up a book dealing business with his sister. He also promoted himself as a \'painter of maps\' and his interest in the field blossomed from there. The business took him to book fairs all over Europe, and for the time, he was soon incredibly well-travelled for one his age.
During these travels he began to make a list of invaluable contacts in the printing, publishing and cartography set. Using his mapmaker contacts, Ortelius, as he is now more often known, created perhaps his most stunning work: an eight sheet map of the world, published in 1564, only one copy of which is said to still exist. Though remarkable in itself, this map was not commercially viable and hence very few copies were made. It did give him the confidence to continue learning his trade and honing the required artistic and practical skills.
Again, after advice from his quality European contacts, Ortelius collected, collated, re-sized and finished a stunning collection of country maps of the known world, which he published in 1570 as, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (loosely translated as, \'Atlas of the whole world\').
This is often considered now as the first atlas, although there were earlier works that could, if pressed, also take that name. But the word \'atlas\' to describe a compendium of maps was not universally accepted until it was also used by Gerard Mercator in around 1595, when he completed and published his 3 volume reworking of Ptolemy\'s Geographia.
Over the next 42 years, no less than 42 editions of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum were published. These included text in: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish. Established English mapmaker John Norden was given the task of issuing the English text version in 1606.
Ortelius died in 1598, but demand for his work was such that, after acquiring the plates and the rights to use them, Jan Baptiste Vrients continued to produced the later editions until 1612.
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DENMARK & SOUTHERN SWEDEN 1584 ORTELIUS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP:
$78.70