Antique map - Sea chart of the Mediterranean Sea by R. de Hooghe 1700
Carte Nouvelle de la Mer Mediterranee ou sont Exactement Remarques Tous les Ports, Golfes, Rochers, Bancs de Sable &c.
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Antique map - Sea chart of the Mediterranean Sea by R. de Hooghe, embellished with 38 insets of major ports and cities of the Mediterranean.
"At the end of the seventeenth century, Willem III, stadholder of the United Provinces of the Northern Netherlands, known to the English as King William III, commissioned his favoured artist Romeijn de Hooghe to embellish nine manuscript charts of English origin depicting the seas south of Holland. This area was the stage for the battles between Willem's fleets and those of his French foe Louis XIV.
Romeijn de Hooghe was an accomplished Dutch artist, known for his finely executed etchings of the important events in the life of his king. He decorated the nine charts, which together compose the Atlas Maritime, with beautiful cartouches and insets showing harbours and cities. Another engraver, who remains unknown, cut the plates after the manuscript charts were drawn. The atlas was published by the well-known Amsterdam publisher Pieter Mortier in 1694. The last chart of the Atlas Maritime is of the Mediterranean; it also shows the Atlantic coasts of Spain, Portugal, and Morocco with the Canary Islands and, in the far right, the Black Sea." (Putman)
Date of the first edition: 1694
Date of this edition: 1700
Date on map: 1694
Copper engraving
Size: 59.5 x 141cm (23.2 x 55 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old body colour, on heavy paper, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: van Egmond, Covens & Mortier, p.331, 9.2; Putman, Early Sea Charts, p.22, pl.7.
From: Le Neptune François, Ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines. - Atlas Maritime. Amsterdam, P. Mortier, 1700.
Second state with the imprint of Pierre Mortier.