Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio [A new representation of America or the New World]
Scale: circa 1:40,000,000 (lat). A modern coloured printed facsimile of a chart showing North and South America, with the Atlantic eastwards to the Canary Islands and the Pacific westwards to New Guinea. Prime meridian runs through Atlantic islands. Elaborately decorated border, cartouche, ships and monster. Original is one of the charts comprising the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570). History of the chart, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Ortelius printed on back.
Object Details
| ID: | G301:7/1 |
|---|---|
| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Ortelius, Abraham |
| Date made: | 1570; 1964; 1570 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 54 cm x 39.5 cm |
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