A portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent continents.
Also shows the southeast Pacific Ocean, the southwest Indian Ocean, as well as the continents of South America, Africa, Europe, and portions of North America and Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. LC Nautical charts on vellum, 16. LC Luso-Hispanic World, Vellum Chart 16 Pen-and-ink, watercolors, and colored pencil, matted and mounted between panels of transparent Lucite plexiglass; the panels are riveted on a rigid frame (102 cm. x 118 cm.). Includes pictures of a fort, circle of compass roses, flags, insignia, coast-of-arms, and religious figures. Imperfect: Mended horizontal tears across left edge section, some losses along edges, discoloration throughout, with spotting along west side. Blue paint in lower right corner.
- Date
- 1633
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Roiz, Pascoal
- Place
- Africa
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- chart
- Original size
- 13,085 × 11,554 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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