File:Print, book-illustration, map (BM 1895,0122.1113).jpg
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editprint, book-illustration, map
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Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger
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print, book-illustration, map |
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English: Map of the world; the globe is depicted in oval shape, containing the titled continents Europe, Africa, Asia and America; two plates with text are located above the Indian Ocean; two angels turn the wold with cranks attached to the poles; the space around the world is filled with scenes from Africa (upper left), Asia (upper right), America (lower left) and Arabia (lower right); first published in Simon Grynaeus, Novus Orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum, J. Herwagen, Basel, 1532; worn and fractured in various places, sheet made up on the left edge. 1532
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| Date | 1532 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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1895,0122.1113 |
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| Notes |
The design is probably based on information from the cartographer Sebastian Münster, although it has also been suggested that the cartography should be associated with Nicolaus Kratzer, astronomer of Henry VIII. Literature: F. Hieronymus, Basler Buchillustration 1500 bis 1545, exh. cat. Basel 1984, no. 450; C. Müller: Hans Holbein d. J. Die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel, exh. cat. 1997, no.114a; G. Bartrum, German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550, BM exh. cat. 1995, no. 237; S. Foister, 'Holbein and England', New Haven and London, 2004, pp.125-6, fig.129; Susan Dackerman et al., 'Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe', Yale UP, 2011, cat.no.84. Text from Bartrum 1995 Literature: Woltmann, II, p. 216 (not Holbein); Hieronymus 450; Rodney W. Shirley, 'The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700', London, 1984, no. 67; H. 90a; P. Barber in 'Henry VIII : A European Court in England', exh. cat. edited by D. Starkey, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1991, p. 69, v.12 Holbein's design is traditionally thought to have been based on information from the cartographer Sebastian Münster, who is best known for his 'Cosmographia Universalis, Beschreibung aller Lender', first published by Petri in Basel in 1544 and frequently reprinted. However, Peter Barber has recently indicated that it may be more appropriate to associate the cartography of this map with Nicolaus Kratzer (1497-c.1550), the astonomer of Henry VIII, whom Holbein knew well and whose portrait he painted in 1528 (Paris, Louvre). The map itself is of a standard type and displays the geographical knowledge of the 1520s, but it does bear a resemblance to contemporary descriptions of the temporary ceiling painted by Holbein in collaboration with Kratzer, for court festivities at Greenwich in 1527, which the chronicler Edward Hall described as showing "the whole earth environed with the sea, like a very map or chart". A strikingly original aspect of this design is the way in which the ethnographic scenes are placed round the borders instead of inside the continents to which they relate, in the manner of earlier maps. The map was first published in Simon Grynaeus, 'Novus Orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum', J. Herwagen, Basel, 1532. This impression is from an early edition which shows the names of the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe in capitals; in later printings variations of type occur and the word Asia tends to appear in particularly large letters. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-1113 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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