Terra sancta sive promissionis, olim Palestina recens delineata, et in lucem edita per Nicolaum Visscher
Visscher, Nicolaes,
1618-1679
cartographic
map
ne
1659
monographic
Amsterdam]
Nicolaus Visscher
anno 1659
lat
1 map ; 47 x 57 cm.
"Nicolaus (also spelled Nicolas, Nicolaes) Visscher was the son of a Dutch master painter and mapmaker, Claes Janszoon Visscher, and was known for the exquisite artistry of the maps he produced. In the 16th and 17th centuries the Dutch were involved in a race against Portugal for control of the spice trade. The antipathy between the two states ran especially deep because of the alliance of Portugal with the Kingdom of Spain, with whom the Dutch had been embroiled in the Eighty Years' War (1566-1648). Only one year before the creation of this map, the Dutch had ousted the Portuguese from Sri Lanka and were engaged in a flurry of cartographic endeavors related to their commercial and imperial expansion. Although the Holy Land belonged to the Ottoman Empire at this time, the Dutch had a foothold in Persia and designs for further expansion in the Near East." World Digital Library.
Appears in Nicolaes Visscher's Atlas contractus orbis terrarum.
Includes inset showing the twelve tribes of Israel and ill.
Relief shown pictorially.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. DLC
Scale [ca. 1:768,000].
Bible
Old Testament
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Palestine
History
To 70 A.D
Maps
Palestine
G7481.2 1659 .V5
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
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