Cartographer:
FULLER, Thomas
Engraver:
Vaughan, Robert
Title:
GALILAEA
Stock Code:
3082
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 Galilee, with Mount Carmel at left and the Sea of Galilee to the right. Scale at lower right. Arms of ‘Rogero Vivion’at top left. Biblical scenes represented on map. “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