Title devised by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Contains five compass roses., Decoration: city views with banners, animals, eight cherubs blowing winds, and Virgin Mary with child (on left edge)., Includes two islands in the North Atlantic "Stilanda" and "Frixlanda.", Pen-and-ink in black, red, blue and green., Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Baltic Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800., Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800., and North Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived by cataloger from text on verso and presence of umlauts., Date derived from style of print., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and 2x2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
John, the Apostle, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Poisoning, Miracles, Snakes, Saints, Chalices, and Dead persons
Figure of Moses, on a pedestal in a niche; sitting, looking away to right, right hand twined in his long beared with the wrist resting on a book propped beside him. On the pedestal are three lines of text beginning: Moysis ingens ex marmore simulacrum ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker, place of production, and date range for production from the Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue, museum no.: DYCE.1169., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom right., and Mounted on page 124 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.