HAINAUT BELGIUM 1584 ABRAHAM ORTELIUS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

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HAINAUT BELGIUM 1584 ABRAHAM ORTELIUS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
HAINAUT BELGIUM 1584 ABRAHAM ORTELIUS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
Description
Nobilis Hannoniæ Comitatus descriptio. Auctore Iacobo Surhonio Montano. Baptista Doctecomius sculpsit.
Description:
Striking and highly detailed
fine unusual 1584 Abraham Ortelius's folio map of Hainaut region, in Belgium
. The map is filled with excellent topographic detail on ancient place names, rivers, forests as well as administrative divisions. A large strapwork title cartouche and a starpwork mileage scales cartouche with two armorials complete the map. French text on the verso.
Copper etching by Baptist Doetecom after drawing by Iacobo Surhonio Montano. Published in: "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" by Abraham Ortelius. Antwerp, 1584
.
Date:
1584 (undated)
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm 57,4 x 47,4
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Paper with browning. Small tears. Map partially reinforced on the verso. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
.
Mapmaker:
Abraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598) was one of the most important figures in the history of cartography and is most famously credited with the compilation of the seminal 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, generally considered to be the world's first modern atlas. Ortelius was born in Antwerp and began his cartographic career in 1547 as a typesetter for the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke. In this role Ortelius traveled extensively through Europe where he came into contact with Mercator, under whose influence, he marketed himself as a "scientific geographer". In this course of his long career he published numerous important maps as well as issued several updated editions of his cardinal work, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Late in his career Ortelius was appointed Royal Cartographer to King Phillip II of Spain. On his death in July fourth, 1598, Ortelius' body was buried in St Michael's Præmonstratensian Abbey, Antwerp, where his tombstone reads, Quietis cultor sine lite, uxore, prole.
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