Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
West Indiche Paskaret…
(18th and 19th Centuries )
An exemplary print of a sea chart using the old-fashioned maritime tradition of portolan charts, which were drawn from first-hand observations by pilots, who used these outlines and then improved on the details using their memories.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
W. Graham Arader III, Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jean and Sidney Silber, Baltimore, February 1, 1977, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2011, by gift.
Geographies
Netherlands, Amsterdam
(Place of Origin)
West Indies (Place Depicted)
Measurements
Framed: 35 × 42 3/16 × 1 3/4 in. (88.9 × 107.2 × 4.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jean and Sidney Silber, 2011
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
93.165