Flanders, county of, northern part, 1699

Item — Oversize_Folder: 4

Identifier: id189684

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Scope and Contents

(Wright Belgium/Holland Map No. 14)

Flandriæ Comitatus Pars Septentrionalis, Comprehendens Franconatum Brugensem et Ejusdem Subjacentia Territoria

[A part of the north of the county court of Flanders, which includes the Franconatum of Bruges and the lower territories]

Walled city of Brugge at center of map. Relief shown pictorially. Roads shown.

Nikolas Visscher III, Amsterdam - geographer

Peter Schenk the Younger, Amsterdam - publisher

copper engraving, hand-colored, canvas backed folding map of 4 sheets

50 cm x 57 cm

1 : 133,000

Legend of symbols representing cities, villages, castles and water mills shown.

Map appears in Vissher's atlas titled : Atlas maior sive collectio mapparum variis autoribus. 1677.

Dates

Creation: 1699

Creator

From the Collection: Wright, John Womack, 1876-1953 (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Saint Helene, Placide de (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Senex, John, d. 1740 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 (Cartographer, Person)

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