He established a business in dealing with books and drawing maps. He studied mathematics, Greek and Latin and travelled a lot across Europe. Artists and Engravers: Abraham Ortelius was born 1528 in Antwerp. 1580 as part of the Atlas: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum., by Ortelius.
(Wikipedia)Ĭirculus Sive Liga Sueviae, Vulgo schwabische Kraiß. Description: This antique map was published ca. He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair, where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554. In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator's influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer. Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. He travelled extensively in Europe and is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576) France (1559–1560) England and Ireland (1576) and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 15). Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren, who would later move to London. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy. It is centered on the Atlantic Ocean and covers the entire world from the North to the South Pole. Following the death of Ortelius's father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. Original Size: 13.5 x 19.5 inches (34.3 cm x 49.5 cm) This is a fine print reproduction of a most important map of the world that appeared in the 1570 first edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. In 1535, the family had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism.
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VINTAGE REPLOGLE DIAMOND MARQUISE SERIES 12' GLOBE WITH LUCITE STAND MID-CENTURY. The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. 1861 Antique Map of The Mediterranean Italy Hand Coloured Engraving Johnston. Ortelius was born on 14 April 1527 in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). The map shows the duchy of Wurtemberg, in the Southeast with Ulm, Stuttgart in the centre and in the North with the neighbouring Heidelberg. This map was replaced then later by the doublepage map "Wirtenberg Ducatus. This is the first map by Abraham Ortelius showing the duchy of Württemberg, published from 1570 onwards up to 1581. This decorative map is engraved with a title cartouche in the upper margin.
Article description Original antique copper engraving, uncolored, published 1579 in the atlas ,Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' by A.
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