Antique Map-THE NETHERLANDS-HOLLAND-BELGIUM-FRANCE-LUXEMBOURG-Homann-1730

Decorative map with uncoloured cartouche surrounded by the coats of arms of Brabant, Limburg, Luxembourg, Geldern, Holland, Zeeland, Zutphen, Flandria, Flanders, Artois, Henegouwen, Namen, Mechelen, Antwerp, Utrecht, Overijssel, Friesland and Groningen. Below Neptune and Mercurius looking at a globe showing the Pacific with Australia, China, Japan, Philippines and California as an island. Covering the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the northern part of France.

Made by an anonymous engraver after Homann.

Medium: engraving / etching with original old hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 60 x 53 cm (23.62 x 20.87 inch). Image size: 56 x 48 cm. (22.05 x 18.9 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Original middle fold. A few brown spots. The area near the middle fold with some creases from top to bottom. A few small tears in the margins of which only one is just touching the image, backed by paper. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

THE NETHERLANDS-HOLLAND-BELGIUM-FRANCE-LUXEMBOURG | DP-A1-001-32

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Original antique map by the Homann family, published ca. 1730. Artists and Engravers: .

Biography artist: Following the long period of Dutch domination, the Homann family became the most important map publishers in Germany in the eighteenth century, the business being founded by J.B. Homann in Nuremberg about the year 1702. Soon after publishing his first atlas in 1707 he became a member of the Berlin academy of Sciences and in 1715 he was appointed Geographer to the Emperor. After the founder’s death in 1724, the firm was continued under the direction of his son until 1730 and was then bequeathed to his heirs on the condition that it trades under the name of Homann Heirs. The firm remained in being until the next century and had a wide influence on map publishing in Germany. Apart from the atlases the firm published a very large number of individual maps. The Homanns produced a Neuer Atlas in 1714, a Grosser Atlas in 1737, and an Atlas Maior with about 300 maps in 1780. They also issued a special Atlas of Germany with full sized plans of principal cities, school atlases and an Atlas of Silesia in 1750 with 20 maps.