Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
DANCKERTS, CORNELIS; after DE WIT, FREDERICK. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. Etched and engraved double-hemispheric world map on 4 sheets joined with a separately printed title-banner. 34x39 inches sheet size; original hand-color with mineral pigments oxidized; mounted to canvas, losses to printed matter primarily keeping to ocean areas and away from landmasses. Amsterdam, circa 1668-1672
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Unrecorded wall map of the world. Shirley writes in his entry 452 about a world map known to exist in only one copy in the University of Leiden University Library with the imprint erased and replaced with that of J. van Keulen. "The exterior decoration is a graphic enlargement, down to the smallest detail, of the vivid surround of De Wit's maritime world map of 1668 by Romeyn de Hooghe. The artistry of this larger four-sheet map is no less distinguished and it is either a masterly copy or perhaps even a predecessor original by De Hooghe". The dedication portrait of Wilhelm III, who died in 1672, provides a terminal date for when this map would have been published.

Shirley allows for considerable mystery to surround the Leiden map and rightly assumes that it is a later printing of an earlier, as yet unknown, work. By comparison to that copy, the present map is certainly the earlier (first?) state. What we can still not say with any certainty is whether this larger map, presumably etched and engraved by De Hooghe, preceded and served as a model for the De Wit 1668 map or if this is a separately published wall map based off of the atlas version. Whichever case it may be, the map is a new discovery, an exquisite portrayal of the world from the Dutch Golden Age. Shirley 452.