Copper engraving by Jodocus Hondio 1563-1611 Nova Europae anno 1597
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| Product number: | 792 |
| Material: | Copper engraving hand colored |
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Hand-colored copperplate engraving "Nova Europae" 37 x 50 cm by the Flemish cartographer Jodocus Hondio 1563-1611. Hondius was born in Wakken, Flanders, the son of Olivier de Hondt and Petronella d'Havertuyn. In his early youth, the family moved to Ghent, where Jodocus began an apprenticeship as an engraver at the age of eight. In 1584, Jodocus fled to London to escape the religious turmoil in Flanders in the wake of the Dutch struggle for freedom. In London he studied with Richard Hakluyt and Edward Wright before going to Amsterdam in 1593 and focusing on the production of maps and globes specialized. Jan Vermeer immortalized two of his globes in his paintings The Astronomer and The Geographer.
In 1600 he made a celestial globe that showed twelve new constellations of the southern sky that had been discovered by the Dutch navigator Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser.
In 1604, Hondius purchased the printing plates of Mercator's World Atlas, which by that time had fallen in popularity to Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Hondius added about forty maps of his own and published this expanded edition from 1606 under Mercator's name and his own as publisher. This atlas, which appeared in several editions, is now known as the Mercator-Hondius Atlas.
In 1600 he made a celestial globe that showed twelve new constellations of the southern sky that had been discovered by the Dutch navigator Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser.
In 1604, Hondius purchased the printing plates of Mercator's World Atlas, which by that time had fallen in popularity to Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Hondius added about forty maps of his own and published this expanded edition from 1606 under Mercator's name and his own as publisher. This atlas, which appeared in several editions, is now known as the Mercator-Hondius Atlas.