Maps

An attractive map of South East Asia originally produced by the Dutch mapmaker Nicolas Visscher c1670. This is a later printing of the map by another Dutch cartographer Peter Schenk c1700. This map has beautiful bright original colour.

Pieter Schenk (1651-1726) was born in Germany but settled in Amsterdam where he became a pupil of Gerard Valk, the engraver. In 1687 he married Valk's sister and thereafter the Schenk and Valk families were active over a long period with a wide range of interests as print sellers , publishers of books, maps, topographical and architectural drawings and globe makers. Although the Schenk family produced some original maps, most of their atlases consisted of printings from revised and re-worked plates originally by Jansson, the Visschers, the Sansons and others.

Framed       MA8160        HK$ 25,600