Subject: Holy Land
Period: 1686 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
18.3 x 14 inches
46.5 x 35.6 cm
This map depicts the Exodus from Egypt and the wanderings of the Children of Israel. The lower part of the map is elaborately engraved with a scene of the encampment and Moses receiving the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai. Adam, Eve, Cane and Abel flank the title cartouche. The map is further decorated with a convoy of ships bringing cedar for the building of Solomon's Temple, and Jonah and the whale. The map was based on Visscher's map of 1650 and originally drawn by Bastiaan Stoopendaal. This is the first state with the publisher's imprint, HKeur en MDoornick. Dutch text on verso.
References: Poortman & Augusteijn #132-GI.
Condition: A
A crisp impression on a bright sheet with a small printer's crease at bottom right and light toning and foxing along the edges of the sheet. There is one short tear in the bottom margin that has been archivally repaired.