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Zee caerte van Engelants Eyndt, alsoe hem tselfde Landt verthoont beginnede van Sorlinges tot Pleymondt. Finis Angliae orae maritimae descriptio, et facies, a Sorlingis ad Pleymoutham. Doer Lucas Jansz Wagenaer.
Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Physical description Note: Very strong colour lightly varnished in places. Scale: [ca. 1:400 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. North at 17 degrees. Soundings. Scales in Spanish miles and Dutch miles. Additional Places: Cornwall, Scilly, Devon. Contents Note: Sea decorated with ships and monster; farms and livestock on land. Grotesque scrollwork cartouches. Coat of arms.
On the back of the sheet there is a Dutch text description of the coast with woodcut views. This chart is from Waghenaer's Spieghel der Zeevaerdt, first published 1584. Has a stamp from the Bibliotheque Mazarine.
On the back of the sheet there is a Dutch text description of the coast with woodcut views. This chart is from Waghenaer's Spieghel der Zeevaerdt, first published 1584. Has a stamp from the Bibliotheque Mazarine.
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Object Details
| ID: | G223:2/5 |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Waghenaer, Lucas Janz |
| Places: | Cornwall; Isles of Scilly Devon |
| Date made: | 1584 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Printed area 33 x 52cm, on sheet 40 x 55cm. |
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