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Jacob von Sandrart - AFRICAE
Nuremburg: Jacob von Sandrart, (c.1697) [ c.1697]
Copperplate engraving, centerfold, full colour, backing added, loss of corner in margin, soiling in bottom margin, tanning along top edge, wear along centerfold, additional fold parallel to centerfold, pencil notes in margin, "4" in ink in top corners, bottom right: Joann Bapt Homann Sculpsit; verso: blank, "4" in ink in top corners, pencil notes, some paint stains, narrow red line along left edge
48 by 56cm
von Sandrart was primarily known as an art dealer and portrait painter, but he also published a number of maps. This map is based on de Wit's map of c1670. However, what makes this map notable is that it is one of two maps engraved by Johann Baptist Homann before 1700 (the other is a map of the Americas). In 1702, Homann established one of the most important German map publishing firms of the eighteenth century.
LITERATURE
Betz #165
Norwich #114
Tooley p.97
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