Nicolaes Visscher
Nicolaes Visscher I (25 January 1618 – buried 11 September 1679) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher. He was the son of Claes Janszoon Visscher.
Also recorded as Nicolas Visscher · Nicholas Visscher · Claes Jansz. Visscher · Nicolaes Visscher (I)
Nicolaes Visscher
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- Born
- 1618 · Amsterdam.
- Died
- 1679 · Amsterdam.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- cartographer · publisher · printmaker · artist · printer · engraver
- Languages
- Dutch
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Nicolaes Visscher I (25 January 1618 – buried 11 September 1679) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher. He was the son of Claes Janszoon Visscher.
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His engraved double hemisphere map, Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula, was created in 1658 in Amsterdam. It also contains smaller northern and southern polar projections. The border is decorated with mythological scenes, one in each corner, drawn by the painter Nicolaes Berchem, showing Zeus, Neptune, Persephone and Demeter. It is an early example of highly decorated Dutch world maps.
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• Illustration — 1685 interpretation of Visscher’s 1656 Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ nec non partis Virginiæ tabula by Petrus Schenk Junior • Illustration — Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula (1658) • Illustration — Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio (1658) • Illustration — Die Gelegenheit Des Paradeis Und Des Lands Canaan Mit Sampt Den Erst Bewohnten Landeren Der Partriarchen Auss Der H. Schrifft Und Anderen Auctoren Zusamen Getragen (1665)
This representation of the city of Maastricht was engraved by L. Jordaens. The city view was the tenth in a series of prints published by Nicolaes Visscher I (1618-1679) in 1660 in his Theatrum praecipuarum Urbium Ducatus Brabantiae.
L. Jordaens · This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. Links to the British Library's website may be broken as the library recovers from a October 2023 cyber attack, and will
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Adriaen Collaert / Nicolaes Visscher / anonymous · Not necessary, PD by age.
Death and legacy
The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Work by Nicolaes Visscher is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Auckland Art Gallery, Nationalmuseum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and museum Huis Bergh.
His son, Nicolaes Visscher II (1649–1702), also worked with him and continued the family tradition of mapmaking after his death. Visscher died in Amsterdam in 1679 and was buried in the Nieuwezijds Kapel on 11 September of that year, though a death year of 1709 is maintained by some sources.
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