Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Very Good
Confirmed: 1/10/2014
Date Acquired: 2/7/2014
Dealers ID No.: 33195 Ruderman
Description: Frans Hogenberg, a skilled Flemish-German engraver, mapmaker, and painter, collaborated with renowned mapmaker Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp during the 1550s. Together, they worked on Ortelius' groundbreaking first atlas, published in Antwerp in 1570 (for 1584 edition View Record (#252)). Hogenberg, alongside Johannes van Deotecum and the Arsenius brothers, contributed to the engraving of the maps within this seminal work.nThis map belongs to a trio of influential maps of the Americas and the Pacific, published between 1587 and 1590, a period of significant advancements in mapping the New World. The other two maps in this group are Giovanni Battista Mazza's Americae et proximar regionum orae descriptio (View Record (#219)) and Orteliuss Maris Pacifici (1589) (#221).nFor many years, the chronological order of these maps was unclear. Scholars debated whether Maris Pacifici predated Hogenbergs and Mazzas maps. However, a study published in The Map Collector in 1995 by Richard Casten and Thomas Suarez concluded that Hogenbergs map was likely the earliest of the three, followed by Mazzas and then Orteliuss Maris Pacifici.nHogenberg also engraved the majority of the works in the six volume Civitates orbis terrarium (edited by Georg Braun) (View Record (#52), View Record (#153), View Record (#321), View Record (#360), View Record (#400), #423 and #424 ).
Engraver: Hogenberg, Frans (c. 1540-c. 1590)
First published: Bigges, Walter Relation oder Beschreibu[n]g der Rheiss vnd Schiffahrt auss Engellandt Cologne: 1589
Mapmaker: Hogenberg, Frans (c. 1540-c. 1590)
Price: 11,5000
Primary Category: Americas
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022
Rarity: R2 Very rare – one or two copies appear on the market
References: Richard Casten and Thomas Suárez, A Revised Chronology for the Mapping of America in the Late Sixteenth Century: Hogenberg, Mazza, Ortelius, The Map Collector 70 (1995): 2630.
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1589
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