Cartographer:
FULLER, Thomas
Title:
NAPTHALI
Stock Code:
3076
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
Elegant map of the land to the north west of the Sea of Galilee. The shield of ‘Napthali’ at top right. Dedication to and coat of arms of ‘Thomae Bowyer,’ at top left. “ 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