↑ Parent: Atlas Minor sive Geographia Compendiosa, qua Orbis Terrarum, per Paucas Attamen Novissimas Tabulas Ostenditur. Amstelaedami, ex Officina Nicolai Visscher

Collection: Smith Collection

Name: Atlas Minor Sive Totius Orbis Terrarum Contracta Delinea ex conatibus Nico[las] Visscher Amst: Bat

Barcode: 11511

Image Number: 11511.0009

Creator: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679

Printmaker: Lairesse, Gerard de, 1640-1711

Date Created: 1689

Date Published: 1689

Content: Graphic

Subjects: AnimalsAtlas (Greek deity)FrontispieceLairesse, Gerard de, 1640-1711LionsMythologyScientific apparatus and instrumentsTitans (Mythology)

Title Translation: Atlas Minor or the entire World drawn and published by Nicolas Visscher in Amsterdam

Brief Description: Frontispiece featuring five classical figures including Poseidon sitting atop a globe and Atlas holding a celestial globe. Other figures include an angel with two trumpets and two female figures in the lower left of the scene; one woman is holding a key and sceptre and the other is writing in a book and holding a caliper. A lion lays in the foreground of the scene, with navigational and measuring instruments scattered about.

Physical Description: Frontispiece: colored

Publisher: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679

Language: Latin

Printing Process: Engraving

Printing Technique: Copper

Material Type: Paper

Notes: Notes: "Amstelaedamj apud Nicolaum Visscher cum Privil: Ordin: General: Belgii:" and "Ge: de Lairesse delin: & sculp:"

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