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Consists of descriptions and full-size facsimiles of three wall maps of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands by Gerard de Jode (1566), Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1608) and Joannes van Deutecum-Claes Jansz. Visscher (1594, reprinted 1636).
Schilder's [full and informative survey of the work of the van Deutecum ramily of engravers(fl. 1560-1630) includes a transcription of two inventories, one of 1608 drawn up before the marriage of Jan Jansz. van Deutecom and Magdalena Sebastiaans the widow of Cornelis Cornelisz. van Woerden. and the other made after Magdalena died in 1625.
The whole inventory is a rich source of information for Dutch everyday life in the seventeenth-century. but of particular interest here are the references to copper plates, printing equipment. and sheet maps and religious prints for stock. For instance, a press called a 'cunst pars' (art press or roller press) and 'Drucklappen' (probably felts laid over the paper and copper plate as they passed through the roller press) are mentioned. It is also clear from this inventory that quite large stocks of maps were maintained (as many as 123 impressions from one plate were found in the first inventory) The second contains an entry for twelve plates (platen) of a map of Rome and this possibly refers to the plates for the Antonio Tempesta view of Rome (1593).
Of the many examples of the painstaking detective work on which the success of this volume is based. the story of Schilder's find in Skokloster Castle in Sweden of the most complete example of Visscher's wall map of the Seventeen Provinces is the most dramatic. James Welu had already surmised that the wall map appearing in Jan Vermeer's 'Painter in his Studio' had been issued with twenty small town views on the left and right sides. even though no complete example was then known. In Skokloster Castle Sweden, Schilder found an example of this map with nine of the ten views on the right hand side intact. It was in a chest underneath was thought to be the wooden bottom of a large cupboard. The map is reproduced with the remaining views (one on the right and ten on the left) reconstructed from separate impressions in other collections.
Contents of Volume 1
Introduction
I. Van Deutecum a family of engravers
II. Printed wall-maps of the Seventeen Provinces, published in the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth century
III. The wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces published by Gerard de Jode in 1566
a. Jacob van Deventer's work as a pioneer in mapping the Dutch Provinces
b. De Jode as a publisher of maps of Dutch provinces
c. The wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1566.
IV. The wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1608 and later editions
a. The editlo princeps
b. The edition of 1622
c. A later edition
d. The edition by Joan Blaeu of 1658
e. The development of the use of town views as decoration in map-borders
f. The in-folio edition of 1608
V. The wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces by Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1636
a. The original edition flu 1594
b. The 1636 edition
c. An edition in two sheets Index
Plates
l. Gerard de Jode, Wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1566. (5 plates)
2. Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1608 (1622) (22 plates)
3. Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Map of the Seventeen Provinces in folio,1608. (2 plates)
4. Joannes van Deutecum, Wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1594 (3 plates)
5. Claes Jansz. Visscher, Wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1636. (14 plates)
6. Francois van den Hoeye, Map of the Seventeen Provinces in two sheets, 1616. (4 plates)
Text volume: Blue cloth, bound with gold imprint. Format 400x285mm/ 15,5x11,5inch. Text in Dutch and English; 111 illustrations in black and white. 171 pp.
Map volume: Blue cloth portfolio, bound with gold imprint. Format 410x580mm/ 16x23inch. 120 grams paper [cream coloured] 6 maps printed on 50 sheets.
