Subject: Northern France
Period: 1646 (circa)
Publication: Atlas Novus
Color: Hand Color
Size:
19.6 x 15.3 inches
49.8 x 38.9 cm
Lovely map centered on the towns of Reims and Rethel with nice detail of the surrounding villages, towns and forests. The decorative title cartouche is embellished with putti and an attribution to the French surveyor Jean Jubrien (1569-1641). Further decorated with two coats of arms, more putti and a surveyor figure on the distance scale. Latin text on verso, published in 1646-57.
References: Van der Krogt (Vol. II) #4210:1.
Condition: A
Full contemporary color with a bit of foxing in the margins and minor toning along the centerfold and edges of the sheet.