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DANCKERTS, Cornelis III, the younger (1664-1717). Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis tabula impressa apud F.de Wit. Amsterdam: Cornelis Danckerts op den Nieuwendyk in dem Atlas, [circa 1696].
Hand-coloured engraved and etched wall-map of the world on 4 sheets, joined, overall 780 x 940mm, the world in two hemisphere with two smaller calottes for each of the pole, the continents delicately hand-coloured, ships and whales filling the oceans, elaborate oval portrait of Wilhelm III borne by two sea nymphs placed below Tierra del Fuego, the map surrounded and decorated by 4 elaborate allegorical scenes representing earth depicted by harvesting and husbandry, air by the Gods in heaven, water by ships, Neptune and a whale, and fire by a battle scene. (Slight creases along old folds, 3 small clean tears to margins.)
A FINE WALL-MAP OF THE WORLD, separately published. Cornelis III Danckerts son of Justus Danckerts (1635-1701), came from a long line of Amsterdam engravers. 'The Danckerts are famous for a number of monumental and beautiful wall-maps and views. First of all they owned the plates of Petrus Plancius' wall-map of the world...the latest edition is of 1676...Justus Danckerts I owned a complete set of wall-maps of the continents, each on four sheets, with scrolls, views and figures in the borders...furthermore there is considerable proof that Cornelis Danckerts III gave preference to the publication of town-views and architectural drawings not only in bookform, but also in the form of wall-maps' (Koeman). This wall-map is a later issue of an anonymous 4 sheet map in the University of Leiden described by Shirley Mapping of the World 452. Shirley dated the Leiden map as circa 1685, suggesting that it was derived from a (now lost) wall map of Frederick de Wit of circa 1670. Certainly the title on this example 'apud F. de Wit' would bear this out, and would also lead one to suggest that the Leiden map may well have been issued by Justus or Cornelis Danckerts. The geography of this map closely resembles the Justus Danckerts wall-map of circa 1680, with the borders derived from the de Wit atlas map of 1668 (Shirley 444), which were of course reused by Justus in his own single sheet atlas world map of circa 1685 (Shirley 529). This map must post-date 1696, the year Cornelis married Geertrui Magnus, and moved in to the house of the widow Magnus on the 'Nieuwendijk in de Atlas'.
Hand-coloured engraved and etched wall-map of the world on 4 sheets, joined, overall 780 x 940mm, the world in two hemisphere with two smaller calottes for each of the pole, the continents delicately hand-coloured, ships and whales filling the oceans, elaborate oval portrait of Wilhelm III borne by two sea nymphs placed below Tierra del Fuego, the map surrounded and decorated by 4 elaborate allegorical scenes representing earth depicted by harvesting and husbandry, air by the Gods in heaven, water by ships, Neptune and a whale, and fire by a battle scene. (Slight creases along old folds, 3 small clean tears to margins.)
A FINE WALL-MAP OF THE WORLD, separately published. Cornelis III Danckerts son of Justus Danckerts (1635-1701), came from a long line of Amsterdam engravers. 'The Danckerts are famous for a number of monumental and beautiful wall-maps and views. First of all they owned the plates of Petrus Plancius' wall-map of the world...the latest edition is of 1676...Justus Danckerts I owned a complete set of wall-maps of the continents, each on four sheets, with scrolls, views and figures in the borders...furthermore there is considerable proof that Cornelis Danckerts III gave preference to the publication of town-views and architectural drawings not only in bookform, but also in the form of wall-maps' (Koeman). This wall-map is a later issue of an anonymous 4 sheet map in the University of Leiden described by Shirley Mapping of the World 452. Shirley dated the Leiden map as circa 1685, suggesting that it was derived from a (now lost) wall map of Frederick de Wit of circa 1670. Certainly the title on this example 'apud F. de Wit' would bear this out, and would also lead one to suggest that the Leiden map may well have been issued by Justus or Cornelis Danckerts. The geography of this map closely resembles the Justus Danckerts wall-map of circa 1680, with the borders derived from the de Wit atlas map of 1668 (Shirley 444), which were of course reused by Justus in his own single sheet atlas world map of circa 1685 (Shirley 529). This map must post-date 1696, the year Cornelis married Geertrui Magnus, and moved in to the house of the widow Magnus on the 'Nieuwendijk in de Atlas'.