OTTENS, Reinier and Josua (fl. 1725-1750). Magnum Mare Del Zur Cum Insula California. Amsterdam, 1675 -1745.
OTTENS, Reinier and Josua (fl. 1725-1750). Magnum Mare Del Zur Cum Insula California. Amsterdam, 1675 -1745. Fourth state of De Wit's map of the Pacific derived from Jansson's map. Engraved map of the Pacific, colored, image 495 x 565 mm. Showing the west coast of North America, depicting California as an island, elaborate figural cartouche incorporating a portrait of Magellan and the figure of Neptune, four galleons on the Pacific. Framed (not examined out of frame). See Burden 469. Ottens added "T Land van den H. Geest, Salomons Eylanden, and les Marquis de Mendoce. Japan is now very rectangular in shape, Tartarie Ketchen is added, other landform changes have been made in the Asian region" (McLaughlin). Ottens also added their own imprint in the lower right corner of the map beneath the cartouche with the portrait of Magellan, the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean, most probably the work of Romeyn de Hooghe McLaughlin, The Mapping Of California As An Island, 59 & 226; see Tooley America p.122.
OTTENS, Reinier and Josua (fl. 1725-1750). Magnum Mare Del Zur Cum Insula California. Amsterdam, 1675 -1745.
OTTENS, Reinier and Josua (fl. 1725-1750). Magnum Mare Del Zur Cum Insula California. Amsterdam, 1675 -1745. Fourth state of De Wit's map of the Pacific derived from Jansson's map. Engraved map of the Pacific, colored, image 495 x 565 mm. Showing the west coast of North America, depicting California as an island, elaborate figural cartouche incorporating a portrait of Magellan and the figure of Neptune, four galleons on the Pacific. Framed (not examined out of frame). See Burden 469. Ottens added "T Land van den H. Geest, Salomons Eylanden, and les Marquis de Mendoce. Japan is now very rectangular in shape, Tartarie Ketchen is added, other landform changes have been made in the Asian region" (McLaughlin). Ottens also added their own imprint in the lower right corner of the map beneath the cartouche with the portrait of Magellan, the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean, most probably the work of Romeyn de Hooghe McLaughlin, The Mapping Of California As An Island, 59 & 226; see Tooley America p.122.
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