Visscher Atlas of 1690
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The Sampling Officials, also called Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild, is a 1662 oil painting by Rembrandt. It is currently owned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It has been described as his "last great collective portrait". The men (with the exception of Bel who is an attendant as indicated by his calotte) are drapers who were elected to assess the quality of cloth that weavers offered for sale to members of their guild. Wikipedia
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
https://www.slideshare.net/guest071bd2/netherlands-powerpoint
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Utrecht
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
https://www.hollstein.com/index/published-the-de-j... - De Jode was a dynasty spanning 4 generations.
https://www.swaen.com/mapmaker.php
https://www.geographicus.com/P/RareMaps/dewit
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1903-A-23539 - Danckerts ship image
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Jansz._Visscher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Visscher_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Visscher_II
https://www.abebooks.com/Leo-Belgicus-DOETECUM-Johan-Visscher-Amsterdam/21185831003/bd
From David Rumsey: "Hand colored in outline map of the world on Mercator's projection. surrounding the map include twelve Roman emperors at the top and bottom, with six groups of national figures and eight vignettes of principal cities at the sides, in the corners are female allegorical representations of the continents: Europa, Asia, America and Africa. Map showing discoveries around the Hudson Bay and the course of the St. Lawrence river. River extending to a small lake in the middle of North America. Tierra del Fuego is shown as a distinct landmass. The Straits of le Maire and Magellan, with the massive Magellanica Sive Terra Australis Incognita, California Coastline appears, heading north toward the Straits of Annian. Decorative cartouche in the upper left tells of the discovery of America by Columbus. Also showing cities and towns, vignettes of ships and sea monsters, rivers, lakes and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. The error of the date of 1592 for the discovery of America by Columbus indicates that this is a very early state of the map, perhaps the first."
This area was known as the Duchy of Savoy for about 430 years, from 1416 to 1847.
Crete was part of the Kingdom of Venice, for about 450 years, from 1212 to 1669. I'm guessing that the image on the top of the page is of the battle in which the Ottoman Empire took control of what was called Candia.
Steve Hanon gave a presentation, on video below, on the Visscher map of New England at the GLAM meeting (part of the California Map Society) on August 22, 2020.
Nuewe tafel voor alle Lief hebbers en Zeevaarende persoonen vertoonende een Oorloghs-schip (...), anonymous, 1709 (translation: New table for all lovers and seafaring persons displaying a war ship)
E86.a1 - The Visscher Atlas of 1690
E86 - Syndics of the Drapers' Guild - 1662 by Rembrandt
The Sampling Officials, also called Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild, is a 1662 oil painting by Rembrandt. It is currently owned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It has been described as his "last great collective portrait". The men (with the exception of Bel who is an attendant as indicated by his calotte) are drapers who were elected to assess the quality of cloth that weavers offered for sale to members of their guild. Wikipedia
E86.a2 - Important Dates in Dutch History
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
https://www.slideshare.net/guest071bd2/netherlands-powerpoint
E86.a4 -Cantino Planisphere
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
E86.a6 - The Dutch Empire
E86.a7 - The VOC - The Dutch East India Company
E86.a8 - Dutch Cartographers of the 17th Century
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
https://www.hollstein.com/index/published-the-de-j... - De Jode was a dynasty spanning 4 generations.
https://www.swaen.com/mapmaker.php
https://www.geographicus.com/P/RareMaps/dewit
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1903-A-23539 - Danckerts ship image
E86.a9 - Three Generations of Visschers
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13rUiCASs7p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Jansz._Visscher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Visscher_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Visscher_II
https://www.abebooks.com/Leo-Belgicus-DOETECUM-Johan-Visscher-Amsterdam/21185831003/bd
E86.a10 - The Talents of Mapmakers
E86 - Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
From David Rumsey: "Hand colored in outline map of the world on Mercator's projection. surrounding the map include twelve Roman emperors at the top and bottom, with six groups of national figures and eight vignettes of principal cities at the sides, in the corners are female allegorical representations of the continents: Europa, Asia, America and Africa. Map showing discoveries around the Hudson Bay and the course of the St. Lawrence river. River extending to a small lake in the middle of North America. Tierra del Fuego is shown as a distinct landmass. The Straits of le Maire and Magellan, with the massive Magellanica Sive Terra Australis Incognita, California Coastline appears, heading north toward the Straits of Annian. Decorative cartouche in the upper left tells of the discovery of America by Columbus. Also showing cities and towns, vignettes of ships and sea monsters, rivers, lakes and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. The error of the date of 1592 for the discovery of America by Columbus indicates that this is a very early state of the map, perhaps the first."
E86.100 - Sabaudia Ducatus : Savoye
This area was known as the Duchy of Savoy for about 430 years, from 1416 to 1847.
E86.112 - Insula Candia, olim Creta
Crete was part of the Kingdom of Venice, for about 450 years, from 1212 to 1669. I'm guessing that the image on the top of the page is of the battle in which the Ottoman Empire took control of what was called Candia.
E86 - Justus Dankerts
Nuewe tafel voor alle Lief hebbers en Zeevaarende persoonen vertoonende een Oorloghs-schip (...), anonymous, 1709 (translation: New table for all lovers and seafaring persons displaying a war ship)
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Atlas appears to be holding up the sky, not the earth, which is the "correct."
test dot - edti
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"Terra Australis" has a long history based on the idea that a southern continent must exist to balance all of the land masses north of the equator.
Julius Caesar is one of the twelve Roman emperors with vignettes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
Europa is one of the four female allegorical representations of the continents of Europe, Asia, America and Africa.
The "Europaei" are one of six groups of national figures.
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The lines on this map may still have some functional purpose, but I find them to be spectacularly beautiful.
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My colleague William lives in Ljubliana, which I believe is Carniola on the map.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniola
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Not sure exactly how to read the table, but here is London.
London with lines emanating from it. Do the numbers on the lines indicate distances?
I believe that this column titled "dsL" is distance from London.
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Sleigh ride?
Laubach is Ljubljana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana
see also the band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laibach
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I think this is Moscow but not sure.
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Formerly Konigsburg, German, now Kalingrad, part of Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad
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Present day Kamien Pomorski, in Poland.
Looks like beehives!
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Amsterdam. Map has north to right side.
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What kind of animals are pulling this man?
Emden is located in Germany.
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Zwolle. Has a city center that still looks like a fort.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&url=https%3A...
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Amsterdam
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Spectacular mermaid.
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Amsterdam.
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Modern-day Gorinchem.
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Rotterdam.
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Modern-day "Cathedral of Our Lady"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_(Antwerp)
The Bourse of Antwerp, the world's first commodity exchange.
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Maastricht
I wonder what is the meaning of this star and the letters around it?
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Erenbreitstein fortress.
http://www.tor-zum-welterbe.de/kulturzentrum-festu...
Is this a wine-making region?
Looks like the devil here in the background.
Mainz
Koblenz
Bonn
This area, Trevirensis, refers to one of the oldest Dioceses in all of Germany. I am curious why, then, are the figures in this beautiful cartouche not more religious...although maybe the presence of the devil is intended to make a religious point, that too much wine can be a problem.
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What's going on here? Is someone being cooked?
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Vienna looked a lot different 124 years earlier, in 1566. This image by Camocio.
https://eng.travelogues.gr/item.php?view=45633
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Vienna
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Bellagio and Lake Como
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Amsterdam
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This area was known as the Duchy of Savoy for about 430 years, from 1416 to 1847.
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Once again, unable to figure out exactly what to do with the information they had about Staten Island and Compagnie Land, they put it into the ocean and also named a straight after Vries, the explorer who claimed this land existed.
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I'm not quite sure why the lion is wielding a sword over a naked body.
Looks like a sea battle.
Morea was the name of the Pellopense peninsula in the southern part of Greece during the middle ages and early modern era.
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Likely a depiction of the battle in which the Ottoman Empire took control of Candia, a.k.a. Crete in 1669.
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Jerusalem.
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The Great Wall.
Korea here shown as a peninsula, not an island. Interesting that the atlas contains more than one instance of things being presented two ways on different maps: California as an island is another prominent example.
The mapmakers couldn't figure out exactly where Compagnie Land and Staten Island should go, so they drew it into the ocean, ambiguously connected to China and Tartaria. Companie Land and Staten Island were supposed sitings, by a Dutch explorer named Vries, of land on, and the strait between, Asia and America. However, it turned out to simply be two of Kiril Islands. See Raremaps.com and wikipedia, for Vries Strait, a passage between two of the Kiril Islands named after Vries.
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Korea as an island.
Mythical "Compagnies Land" supposedly once sited by Dutch explorers in the mid-17th Century.
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Pearl River delta.
Shanghai should be here but I don't see it. I do see Hangzhou and Suzhou.
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A map of Morocco, with north to the right side of the map. See on right border "Septentrio", which means north; see also three other sides with names for west (Occidens), south (Meridies) and east (Oriens). See also straits of gibraltar on the right side of map.
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Buttons Bay later became Hudson's Bay, although a lower portion of the bay is called Hudson's Bay.
California shown as an island. No place names on the east side, but many recognizable names on the west side.
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Philadelphia is on this state, but not on earlier states of this map.
This is an idealized view of Manhattan. I do find it interesting that a gallows is front and center on this vignette.
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A gruesome scene of someone being killed and two heads on stakes nearby.
Preparing and cooking human body parts. A German explorer had an experience with cannibalism in Brazil in the 16th century that became a theme in maps for over a hundred years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History:_An_Acc...
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This place of Magellanica appears to be either fabricated or based on hearsay from explorers.
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