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Hand-colored folio map of Scandinavia from the English Atlas (Oxford: Moses Pitt, 1680). Relief depicted pictorially. Title cartouche on upper left corner is on the back of two sea monsters (whales) flanked by other flora and fauna, weapons, and escutcheons. Next to the cartouche containing the mape scale on the lower right is a kneeling man holding calipers.


cartography
1680-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Janssonio-Waesbergios et Mosem Pitt
ink; laid paper; color wash
22 in x 26 1/4 in
Netherlands: Amsterdam