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Title Page for Blaeu’s Atlas Novus, vol. IV (British Isles)

Title Page for Blaeu’s Atlas Novus, vol. IV (British Isles)

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£300.00

Title:
Title Page for Blaeu’s Atlas Novus, vol. IV (British Isles)

Date of publication:

  • 1646

    • Printed Measurement:

  • 42 x 25 cm

    • Colour:

  • original

    • Mapmaker:

  • Joannes Blaeu

    • [Title page: Atlas Novus, volume IV]

    This is an architectural title page, engraved for the fourth volume of Blaeu’s Atlas Novus. The central panel is blank: a label in the appropriate language would normally have been pasted down. This is the British volume, and an ancient Briton presides over a Roman, a Saxon, a Dane and a Norman representing different epochs in British history. Read more

    Condition & Materials 

    Copper engraving, 42 x 25 cm, original hand colour heightened in gold, ink library stamp of a Dutch school affecting top right hand corner of image (the Gymanisum St Alberti in Zenderen, attached to the Carmelite monastery there); blank verso.

    References 

    Shirley, Courtiers and Cannibals, 46A.
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