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America Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio

Abraham Ortelius (Artist)
1587-1595
handcolored engraving
(Renaissance Europe )

This is the second state of this famous map in which the accuracy of the shape of South America is considerably improved. It is printed from the second plate depicting North and South America which removed the bulge from the southwest coast of South America.

Provenance
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W. Graham Arader III, Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jean and Sidney Silber, Baltimore, January 23, 1979, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2011, by gift.

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Geographies

Belgium, Antwerp (Place of Origin) North and South America (Place Depicted)

Measurements

Framed: H: 21 7/16 × W: 27 1/16 × D: 1 in. (54.4 × 68.7 × 2.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Jean and Sidney Silber, 2011

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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93.164

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600 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD
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