C1670

Acurata Totius Archipelagi et Graeciae Universae Tabula

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Early issue of De Wit’s large, c.18th hand coloured engraved map of Greece prior to being granted privilege in 1789. Superbly embellished with a large title at lower left depicting robed figures and objects representing the ancient arts and knowledge. … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Acurata Totius Archipelagi et Graeciae Universae Tabula

Date:

C1670

Mapmaker:

Frederick de Wit (1630 - 1706)

Condition:

In good condition, with centre fold as issued.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Image Size:

527mm

x 430mm

Paper Size:

624mm

x 533mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1670

Description:

As with many of the Dutch mapmakers and publishers of the c.18th, it is often very difficult to date accurately the exact publication dates of individual maps. Often the atlases or the maps bear no dates. On 27th October 1689 Frederick de Wit made a request to the States General in order to obtain a privilege for the publication of certain maps. Consequently any of his maps with the annotaion, ‘cum privilegio‘ were published after 1688. (Koeman III, p. 192)

References:
Zacharakis, C. A Catalogue of Printed Maps of Greece 1477-1800 Athens 2009 :: 3706 (a).
Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici. Amsterdam 1967. Volumes I-V :: Wit 3 (22).
The British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Maps Charts and Plans to 1968 (16 Volumes):: Vol.6, Pg.1035, 44580 (9) (later Ottens 1730 issue).

Frederick de Wit (1630 - 1706)

De Wit was born Frederik Hendriksz was born to a Protestant family in Gouda, Netherlands. Frederik was married on 29 August 1661, to Maria van der Way (1632–1711), the daughter of a wealthy Catholic merchant in Amsterdam and from about 1648 until his death in 1706 lived and worked in Amsterdam. By 1654 he had opened a printing office and shop under the name "De Drie Crabben" (the Three Crabs), in 1655, he changed the name to, "Witte Pascaert" (the White Chart). By 1654 he began to publish his first charts and by 1662 he issued his first complete atlas. By 1671, he was publishing a large folio atlas with as many as 100 maps. In 1689, De Wit received a 15 year privilege from the states of Holland and West Friesland that protected his right to publish and sell his maps. After De Wit's death in 1706, his wife Maria continued the business for four years printing and editing De Wit's maps until 1710 when she sold the firms stock at auction. Most of the atlas plates and some of the wall map were sold to Pieter Mortier (1661–1711).

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