A New and Accurate Map of the World, 1651

by Dale Kincaid

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A New and Accurate Map of the World, 1651

Artist

Dale Kincaid

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Drawing - Illustration

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A vintage-style world map is displayed, featuring two hemispheres side by side, surrounded by elaborate decorations and smaller circular diagrams. The map contains ornate imagery and text, giving it an antique feel indicative of historical cartography.

A New and Accurat Map of the World, 1651 is a hand-colored double-page engraved twin-hemisphere map created by John Speed. It features California depicted as an island, spandrel vignettes representing the Four Elements of Water, Earth, Air, and Fire, and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses. Portraits of the first circumnavigators are included at the corners of the map: Sir Francis Drake, Ferdinand Magellan, Thomas Cavendish and Olivier van Noort. Distributed throughout the map are numerous cartouches and annotations providing additional detail on the exploration of North America and the southern latitudes. The map is based on the truest descriptions, latest discoveries, and observations made by English or strangers. It was published in 1676 by Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell in London.

John Speed (1552-1629) was the best known English mapmaker, cartographer, chronologer and historian of the Stuart period. Speed came to mapmaking late in life, producing his first maps in the 1590s and entering the trade in earnest when he was almost 60 years old. His fame lies with two atlases, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (first published 1612), and the Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World (1627).

Speed, John; A new and accurat map of the world : drawne according to ye truest descriptions, latest discoueries & best obseruations yt haue beene made by English or strangers, 1651; Public Domain

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June 10th, 2024

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