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Map of the world; the globe is depicted in oval shape, containing the titled continents Europe, Africa, Asia and America; two plates with text are located above the Indian Ocean; two angels turn the wold with cranks attached to the poles; the space around the world is filled with scenes from Africa (upper left), Asia (upper right), America (lower left) and Arabia (lower right); first published in Simon Grynaeus, Novus Orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum, J. Herwagen, Basel, 1532; worn and fractured in various places, sheet made up on the left edge. 1532 Woodcut and letterpress, printed from two blocks

Date
1532
Mapmaker / publisher
Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger: Published by: Johannes Herwagen
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,500 × 1,748 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" (1532). Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger: Published by: Johannes Herwagen, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print,_book-illustration,_map_(BM_1895,0122.1113).jpg

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