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Text-border with Tritons flanking a vase at top, vertical borders with foliage and candelabre motif; horizontal border below with putti playing, printed from four blocks; on verso a map of Asia (by Holbein?); illustrations to a Latin edition of Münster's 'Cosmographia'Ptolemy, 'Geographia universalis', Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1545. Woodcut and letterpress

Date
1523–1540
Mapmaker / publisher
Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger: Printed by: Adam Petri
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,500 × 1,956 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; permission field: © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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"print, book-illustration, map" (1523–1540). Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger: Printed by: Adam Petri, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print,_book-illustration,_map_(BM_1865,0114.1031_1).jpg

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