An Old Map
Here is a c400 year old hand-tinted decorative map of the (mid) east of England that I recently acquired (dimensions = 27x19cm) . It was engraved by Pieter van den Keere (1571-c1646). The dealer described it as dating from the 1590’s.
This charming and fascinating map features a notably hilly (!) Norfolk, my adopted county (in the bottom RH corner). It is interesting to note that the area around the fenlands is depicted as it may well appear in the not too distant future ie inundated! Other counties included are: Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Pieter came to England in 1584, as a Protestant refugee from his home town of Ghent with his sister Colette, who married Jodocus Hondius, in 1587. It was probably from Hondius that Keere learned to engrave. Both engravers left London in 1593 to settle in Amsterdam. Thus, as with so many good and interesting things, this map is very much a product routes traversed.
Huzzah!
Here, on Bath's Pulteney Bridge, there is a little shop which deals in antique original maps. I love them and I covet quite a few. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lovely map, I have one similar but never get a goodlook at it because it's too high up on the wall. Interesting to see that both Sheringham and Holt are on it but not Cromer contrary to many early maps.
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