Find Any Map
Portolan grid (construction)
Download full sizeView at the archive

Portolan grid (construction)

Illustration of the construction of the compass or rhumb line grid typical of portolan charts, on the anonymous Genoese nautical chart (c.1325-50) held by the, Washington DC.

Date
1325
Mapmaker / publisher
Mediterranean_chart_fourteenth_century2.jpg: anonymous, probably Genoan *derivative work: Walrasiad ( talk )
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
1,235 × 902 pixels

Public domain

Reason: its maker died long enough ago that the copyright has expired.

This status rests on the map's publication history, as researched by Wikimedia Commons. Check it before commercial use.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD Old; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

Credit line

"Portolan grid (construction)" (1325). Mediterranean_chart_fourteenth_century2.jpg: anonymous, probably Genoan *derivative work: Walrasiad ( talk ), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portolan_grid_(construction).jpg

What public domain means here

Need maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 141760.

More like this