Cartographer:
FULLER, Thomas
Title:
DESERTVM Paran
Stock Code:
3075
Method:
Copper engraving
Colouring:
Later colour
Atlas:
Pisgah’s Sight of Palestine
Size: (W x H):
33cm x 28cm
13 inches x 11 inches
Date:
1650
Price:
£195
Map of the Sinai with the route taken out of Egypt, across the Red Sea and the Sinai by the Israelites. Coat of arms at top right with dedication to ‘Johanni Tailero. “ From the seventeenth century onwards various works were issued which dealt with the ancient world, such works were very popular. Perhaps the one with the most quaint and decorative series of maps is that in Thomas Fuller’s Pisgah’s Sight of Palestine..” (Tooley: Maps and Mapmakers, p. 104)
Fine condition