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C1648
Glocesrtria Ducatus Blaeu
Mapmaker:
Spectacular Blaeu map of Gloucestershire with exceptional original hand colouring, elaborately decorated with numerous crests and decorative title cartouche comprising three figures with sheep. Latin text edition. from Novus Atlas. Reference: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici II, II, 5260:2.
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Full Title:
Glocesrtria Ducatus Blaeu
Date:
C1648
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Paper toned, otherwise a good strong impression, with wide margins and strong original hand colouring.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
495mm
x 410mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1648
Description:
Spectacular Blaeu map of Gloucestershire with exceptional original hand colouring, elaborately decorated with numerous crests and decorative title cartouche comprising three figures with sheep.
Latin text edition. from Novus Atlas.
Reference: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici II, II, 5260:2.
Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571 - 1638)
One of the most influential mapmakers of the Golden Age of mapmaking. Blaeu was born at Uitgeest or Alkmaar, the son of a herring salesman and destined to succeed his father in the trade, but his interests lay more in Mathematics and Astronomy. Between 1594 and 1596 he was a student of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and qualified as an instrument and globe maker. In 1600 he discovered the second ever variable star now known as P Cygni. On his return to the Netherlands, he made published his own maps and world globes. He ran his own printing works which allowed him to continually update his own atlases such as his, Atlas Novus published in 1635. In 1633 he was appointed map-maker for the VOC . He died in Amsterdam in 1638 and his business was continued by his two sons, Johannes and Cornelis Blaeu.
