Jan Baptist Elwe Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Amerique Septentrionale, 1792"
Title: Amerique Septentrionale, 1792
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 40 x 32 in | Image Size: 40 x 32 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
The Dutch publisher Jan Barend Elwe flourished between 1785 and 1809. He was a bookseller and publisher who reproduced a small number of maps which largely drew from the work of other cartographers.
His famous map Amerique Septentrionale Divisee en ses Principales Parties was derived mainly from Sanson’s and Jaillot’s maps of 1656 and 1676 respectively. By this time, California was no longer shown as an island, but as a peninsular, and the Great Lakes to the north are enclosed, which was another feature often shown incorrectly on earlier maps of America. For this map, Elwe appears to have acquired the plate used by Ottens and revised it slightly. He published the result in his 1792 Folio Atlas, printed in Amsterdam, which included 37 different maps.
Elwe also published beautiful double hemisphere world maps, and other maps as well, all meticulously re-engraved to include his name.
