Description
Description: Antique print, untitled. Double hemisphere from a Dutch Bible published by the Keur family. The map is surrounded by allegorical representations of the continents based on Visscher. The Keur publishing family used Daniel Stoopendaal’s world map titled ‘Werelt Caert’ for 70 years in their Bibles. When the plate became worn, Jan van Jagen was commissioned to engrave a new plate. It was updated with California shown correctly as a peninsula, the addition of several Pacific islands and a corrected East Asian coastline. The northwest coast of North America is left completely blank, Australia is partially mapped and there is only a hint of New Zealand. Diagrams of the Copernican and Ptolemaic solar systems rest between the hemispheres. J. v. Jagen’s signature at bottom just left of center. Dutch text on verso. Source unknown, to be determined.
Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Jan van Jagen’ after ‘Daniel Stoopendaal’. Jan van Jagen (1709 – 1800), Dutch engraver, etcher and cartographer. Daniel Stoopendaal (Dutch) was active in Amsterdam from 1685 to 1713. Both Daniel and Bastiaan Stoopendaal made maps for the so-called Keur Bibles (published from 1666-1756). Most probably both were not related. Bastiaan worked mostly in the circle of Nicolaes Visscher. Daniel engraved topographical prints and maps. He engraved the plates for books published by Pieter van der Aa: ‘De zegepralende Vecht van Utrecht tot Muyden’ and ‘Galérie agreable du Monde’.
- Date: 1748
- Technic: Engraving / etching on hand laid paper.
- Overall size: 19,4 x 14,2 inch
- Image size: 17,6 x 11,9 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. A few minor spots. Paper somewhat browned. Original folds as issued. Overall a good copy. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: PCT-58796
- Storage Location: BG-B6-06 Iscra
- Price in IDR : 21,480,000
