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Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726

Africa

[ca. 1686?]

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Africa, Amsterdam : Gedruckt by Gerard Valck ..., [ca. 1686?], Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.




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  • Title(s)

    Africa [cartographic material].

  • Published/Created

    Amsterdam : Gedruckt by Gerard Valck ..., [ca. 1686?]

  • Physical Description

    1 map : hand colored ; 57 x 94 cm, on sheet 62 x 102 cm

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    Folio C 2015 1
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
    Host bibliographic record [Library Catalog]

  • Copyright Status

    Public Domain

  • Classification

    Maps & Atlas (printed)

  • Notes

    Relief shown pictorially.
    "Cum privilegio ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae."
    Appears in Atlas minor sive geographia compendiosa, published by Nicolaes Visscher (1649-1702) and his widow in various editions from ca. 1683 to ca. 1716.
    The map is unrecorded in Norwich's Maps of Africa: an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Donker, 1983). Elements of the map are similar to Valck's L'afrique divisée suivant l'estendue de ses principales parties (1680; Norwich no. 49), including the depictions of an elephant, lion, leopard, camel, and crocodile at lower left.
    Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, v. III, p. 137, no. 4
    Fairman, E. "'Wherin all trauailers may vnderstand how to direct their voyages': Maps and Atlases at the Yale Center for British Art from the Bequest of Paul Mellon." In Yale University Library Gazette, 75 (2001), page 124
    BAC: British Art Center copy is bound as map 71 in part 2 of a composite atlas issued by Nicolaes Visscher with title: Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, ca. 1716 (Folio C 2015 1). Hand-colored, with use of gold in the neat line and to mark select borders.
    "Printed from two plates [sheets joined at 40° longitude]. With allegorical representations, scenes with inhabitants and inset on the calculation and construction of the geographical grid."--Koeman.
  • Subject Terms

    Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

  • Form/Genre

    Maps.

  • Contributors

    Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702. Atlas minor.

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