Description
This rare print shows a map of Egypt and the Nile Valley showing major cities and political divisions as well as nicely detailed mountains and oases. The map is decorated with a large title cartouche.
Made by Antoine de Winter after Nicholas Sanson d?Abbeville.
Medium: Engraving / etching with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 21.8 x 31.7 cm (8.58 x 12.48 inch). Image size: 21 x 29.5 cm. (8.27 x 11.61 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Fold as published. Tear in left margin restored. Remains of tape. Two wormholes. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
AFRICA-EGYPT-NILE VALLEY-CITIES-MOUNTAINS-OASES | RBOS-A9-39
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published in ‘Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen. nevens die van China, Africa, en andere gewesten des werelds.’, by S. de Vries, published in Utrecht by J. Ribbius, 1682. This splendid work on the curiosities encountered during the ages of exploration abroad contains 13 maps by Sanson d’Abbeville and many etched plates by Romeyn de Hooghe, which are considered some of the most interesting of his oeuvre. Simon de Vries (Dutch 1524-1708): Poet, writer and translator, publisher, active in Utrecht. .
Reference: Ref: Sabin, 19854. Tiele, 260. Cat. NHSM, 240. Muller, 1565.
Biography engraver: Anthonie de Winter (1653-1707) was a Dutch engraver, etcher, publisher and art dealer. Son of Hendrik de Winter, a seal-engraver and silversmith.
Biography artist: Nicholas Sanson d’Abbeville (1600 ? 1667) and his descendents were important French cartographer’s active through the 17th century. Sanson started his career as a historian where, it is said, he turned to cartography as a way to illustrate his historical studies. In the course of his research some of his fine maps came to the attention of King Louis XIII who, admiring the quality of his work, appointed Sanson ‘Geographe Ordinaire du Roi’. Sanson’s duties in this coved position included advising the King on matters of Geography and compiling the royal cartographic archive. Sanson’s corpus of some three hundred maps initiated the golden age of French Cartography.
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