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Brasilia qua parte paret Belgis.
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673,...
Brasilia qua parte pare...
1647
10151.042
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[Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, publisher., Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644, Baerle, Caspar van, 1584-1648, Post, Frans Jansz, 1612-1680]
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Brasilia qua parte paret Belgis.
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10151.042
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 9 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Title at the top of the map, framed by two fruit swags. Suspended below the title are the arms of the Netherlands (left), Dutch Brazil (centre) and the Prince of Orange (right). Four rows of images in the Brazilian interior (top right), the top row devoted to local flora and fauna, the lower three to landscape views of indigenous settlements and practices. These illustrations were supplied by Frans Post, one of the artists John Maurice encouraged to settle in Dutch Brazil. See J. de Sousa-Leão, 'Frans Post in Brazil', Burlington Magazine, LXXX, 1942, pp. 58-61. Introduction to the map in a large cartouche at the far left, surrounded by martial arms, cornucopias made of thick skin (including one which emits steam), and the arms of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604-79), governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil between 1637 and 1644. Scaled inset map of the Brazilian coastline below the cartouche ('MARITIMA BRASILIÆ UNIVERSÆ'), on a scroll made of the same, thick material. Key on a sheet at the bottom edge of the map. Cartouche in the bottom right corner, titled 'PRÆFECTURÆ DE PARAIBA, ET RIO GRANDE'. Accompanied by three descriptions of Dutch Brazil below the map, in Latin (top), Dutch (middle) and French (bottom). The text is based on Caspar Barlaeus' (see note below). In the 1630s Blaeu replaced Visscher as the favoured cartographer of the Dutch West India Company, just in time to benefit from the Company's forays into the newly conquered territories of Dutch Brazil. In 1642 he produced a map of the colony for his new atlas, and six years later he published this large wall map, which was supplemented with Post's illustrations and Georg Marggraf's researches into the Brazilian interior.
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