![]() The Antarctic is dominated by a massive continent of Magellanica, an imaginary proto-Antarctica which begins in Tierra del Fuego and covers the entire South Pole, extending north to include a huge New Guinea. Lawrence River, but the geography of the map pre-dates any European mapping of the Great Lakes. The interior of North America is bisected by an extraordinarily long St. A Strait of Anian separates America and Asia. California is presented in peninsular form, and the Pacific northwest reaches up to the imaginary kingdoms of Quivira and Anian. The origin of this map in so early a source explains many of the geographical features. The general form of, and the text from the two decorative cartouches are also preserved, including Geelkercken's 'AMSTELODAMI' from the right-hand cartouche. The terrestrial Hemispheres: Geelkercken's 1632 World The map proper is copied from Nicolaes van Geelkercken's Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis Planis Hemisphaeriis Comprehēsa, first engraved by Joannes Jansson in 1617, with Scolari borrowing specifically from the 1632 state of that map (whose distinctive treatment of Tierra del Fuego as an archipelago is preserved). Tracing the Source MapsSince the Venetian engraver borrowed from a variety of sources, it is appropriate to attempt to trace them. The decorative engraving of the two hemispheres features two elaborate allegorical cartouches, seven sailing ships, two native canoes, a mermaid spouting wetly from a horn, and a sea monster. There are twenty pairs of figures, and eighteen city views. ![]() The map includes allegorical depictions of the four elements AND the four seasons, when most comparable maps only attempted one of these motifs. Thus, the inclusion of not only these elements, but also more of them than other available map, appears to have been well-calculated to appeal to popular interests. Also, the convention of the carte á figures - a map, bordered with plans and views of cities, with figures displaying the styles of men and women living in the depicted region - was well established and widely desirable. More of Everything You WantBy the mid-17th century, the double-hemisphere format was the most fashionable presentation of a world map, offering abundant space between and about the hemispheres for ornament. ![]() Bifolco identifies this location as an engravers' shop associated with Scolari. The engraver was not fully committed to deception: faintly in the lower right border is an additional, more honest imprint, 'in Venetia à S. It is perhaps ironic that of the Dutch mapmakers from whom Scolari sourced this map, not one element appears to have been drawn from Blaeu, apart from his name. Both the imprint and the professed authorship were deliberately misleading: the map was engraved in Venice, not Amsterdam, and it has been attributed to the illustrator and printer Stefano Mozzi Scolari. This beautiful, extremely rare, separately-issued, double hemisphere carte á figures world map captures the most desirable elements of 17th century Dutch decorative cartography in one composition - including an Amsterdam imprint and the prominently displayed patronym of 'Willem Blaeu'. Minnesota - North Dakota - South Dakota.Massachusetts - Connecticut - Rhode Island.This website is developed as a part of the world's largest public domain archive, PICRYL. law and are therefore in the public domain. The Library provides Congress, the federal government and the American people with a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage them and support their intellectual and creative endeavors.ĭisclaimer: A work of the Library of Congress is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government "as part of that person's official duties." In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. The objects in this archive are from Library of Congress - the nation’s first established cultural institution and the largest library in the world, with millions of items including books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
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