![]() ![]() Joan died a year later and is buried in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam. Joan’s productivity slammed to a halt in 1672, when a fire completely destroyed his workshop and stock. He is also known for his town plans and wall maps of the continents. It is one of the most sought-after atlases by collectors and institutions today due to the attention to the detail, quality, and beauty of the maps. ![]() All the while, Joan was honing his own atlas. Joan also modified and greatly expanded his father’s Atlas novus, first published in 1635. This map was used as a template for the world map set in the floor of the Amsterdam Town Hall, the Groote Burger-Zaal, in 1655. Joan brought out many important works, including Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula, a world map to commemorate the Peace of Westphalia which brought news of Abel Tasman’s voyages in the Pacific to the attention of Europe. Initially, Joan trained as a lawyer, but he decided to join his father’s business rather than practice.Īfter his father’s death in 1638, Joan and his brother, Cornelis, took over their father’s shop and Joan took on his work as hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company. He inherited his father’s meticulous and striking mapmaking style and continued the Blaeu workshop until it burned in 1672. Joan, or Johannes, Blaeu (1596-1673) was the son of Willem Janszoon Blaeu. Because of the relatively scarity of this map and Blaeu's prominence as one of the most influential and decorative map makers of the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography, this map has become especially sought after by collectors and increasingly scarce on the market. The map depicts celestial figures seated among the clouds and representations of the four season below, with each figure seated in a chariot drawn by beasts and birds. Thévenot divided the continent in two, between Nova Hollandia to the west and Terre Australe to the east of a latitude staff running down the meridian equivalent to longitude 135 degrees East of Greenwich. The engraving, layout and elegance of decoration are all of the highest standard. Hollandia Nova in the Kurfürsten Atlas is shown as it appears in Blaeus world map of 1648, Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula. This double hemisphere map was prepared at the end of the firm's publishing history and is much rarer than its predecessor. Unlike Blaeu's first world map which appeared in the majority of his atlases and was done on the Mercator projection, Blaeu utilizes a double hemisphere format and depicts California as an island. The map was also included in contemporary composite sea atlases of the period by Goos and others. Nice old color example of Blaeu's double hemisphere map of the World, originally prepared by Joan Blaeu for his Atlas Maior in 1662. African Islands, including Madagascar (68).This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights (Public Domain Mark 1.0). The engraving is generally of very high quality and clearly the work of a master cartographer balancing the conveyance of information and beauty most elegantly. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at Copyright This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. Use and reproduction Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island Subject(s) Hemispheres surrounded by sun at top with flying birds and an allegorical scene at bottom. Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu (Unknown Variant : New Plate) Topic: World Maps Physical Description: 1 map : hand colored 21. Title in round cartouche at upper left and in Dutch at upper right. Both hemispheres geographically follow Visscher and Blaeu. California shown as a labeled island with a flat northern coast and some coastal place names. ![]()
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