Cartographer:
FULLER, Thomas
Title:
GILEAD
Stock Code:
3081
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
Various biblical and battle scenes are shown on the map. Shield of Gad at lower left. Arms of ‘Hugoni Windham’ on top border. “ 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