Frederik De Wit Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Nova Europae Descriptio, 1680"
Title: Nova Europae Descriptio, 1680
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 20 x 16 in | Image Size: 20 x 16 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:
Frederick de Wit was born in 1630 and was one of the most successful and prominent map engravers and publishers in Amsterdam.
The first great flowering of Dutch mapmaking was inspired by Blaeu and Jansson at the turn of the seventeenth century and de Wit acquired many of the copper plates used by these great cartographers when they were subsequently dispersed at auction.
As a publisher, his work covered many different styles of mapmaking, including world atlases, local Dutch atlases, sea charts and town plans. His publications were notable for the beauty of their engraving and colouring, and were reissued many times by other publishers after his death.
His atlas, Sive Descriptio Terrarum Orbis, also known as his Atlas Maior, was published between 1670 and 1707 and most of his greatest maps were included within these covers, later adapted and amended as new discoveries came to light.
Frederick de Wit died in 1706.
