matrix:T76567

Things – T76567

Map of Africa

Matrix life cycle

Details

printing: matrix
metal: copper
set or complex object: piece
tool

Impressions

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (designer), Josua van den Ende (printmaker), Hessel Gerritsz (printmaker), Map of Africa. In Geographica Et Hydrographica Nova Africae Descriptio, Amsterdam: Hendrik (I) Hondius (printer), 1624 (Weimar, HAAB) ◼

Actors

Hessel Gerritsz (ca 1581 - buried 4 September 1632) printmaker
Josua van den Ende (ca 1584 - ca 1634) printmaker
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571 - 21 October 1638) designer

Design

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (designer), Josua van den Ende (printmaker), Hessel Gerritsz (printmaker), Map of Africa Part of Set of Blaeu's and Hondius's maps ◼

Expert view

Comments

State of art

Borders designed and etched by Hessel Gerritsz - Elmer Kolfin, Tradition and innovation in Dutch ethnographic prins of Africans c. 1590-1670, De Zeventiende Eeuw 32 (2016): 176

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2024-07-05 18:39)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-01-06 08:52)