C1646

Insularum Britannicarum Acurata Delineatio ex Geographicis Conatibus Abrahami Ortelii.

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Scarce c.18th hand coloured engraved Dutch map of Roman ancient Britain, oriented with west to the top, from Jansson’s Atlas Major. England and Wales are labelled as Britannia Superior, and further divided into the later Roman provinces of Prima (the … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Insularum Britannicarum Acurata Delineatio ex Geographicis Conatibus Abrahami Ortelii.

Date:

C1646

Mapmaker:

Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664)

Engraver:

Pieter Van den Keere

(1571 –

1646?)

Condition:

In good condition, with centre fold as issued.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Image Size:

507mm

x 392mm

Paper Size:

607mm

x 494mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1646

Description:

Scarce c.18th hand coloured engraved Dutch map of Roman ancient Britain, oriented with west to the top, from Jansson’s Atlas Major.

England and Wales are labelled as Britannia Superior, and further divided into the later Roman provinces of Prima (the South), Secunda (Wales), Flavia Caesariensis (the Midlands), and Maxima Caesariensis (the North). Scotland is labelled using both its early and later Roman titles, as Britannia Inferior and the province of Valentia. Hibernia (Ireland), the Orcades, and the Hebrides are also labelled. Principal cities and towns are picked out in red, as are the two Roman era walls built by Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, here labelled as Severan. Original celtic tribal regions are also labelled, as well as the site that Caesar allegedly landed in his invasion of 55 BC. The map is embellished with a large baroque strapwork cartouche in the bottom left corner, containing the name of the publisher, the title, and a dedication to Abraham Ortelius. The figures on either side of the cartouche are representations of ancient Britons.

References:
Kroght, P. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici. Amsterdam 1997. Nine volumes :: Vol. I, 5000H:1A.
Shirley, R. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650-1750. Tring 1988 :: 466.

Collections:
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: ID: G219:1/13
Yale University Library & Art Gallery: Call Number 3191 1646
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: 12148/btv1b5963752c

Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664)

Janssonius also known as Jan Jansson was a Dutch cartographer, the son of a printer and bookseller. In 1612 married into the cartographically prominent Hondius family of map makers. Following his marriage he moved to Amsterdam where he worked as a book publisher. It was not until 1616 that Jansson produced his first maps, most of which were heavily influenced by Blaeu. In the mid 1630s Jansson partnered with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, to produce his important work, the eleven volume Atlas Major. About this time, Jansson's name also begins to appear on Hondius reissues of notable Mercator/Hondius atlases. Jansson's last major work was his issue of the 1646 full edition of Jansson's English Country Maps. Following Jansson's death in 1664 the company was taken over by Jansson's brother-in-law Johannes Waesberger. Waesberger adopted the name of Jansonius and published a new Atlas Contractus in two volumes with Jansson's other son-in-law Elizée Weyerstraet with the imprint 'Joannis Janssonii haeredes' in 1666. These maps also refer to the firm of Janssonius-Waesbergius. The name of Moses Pitt, an English map publisher, was added to the Janssonius-Waesbergius imprint for maps printed in England for use in Pitt's English Atlas.

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