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Two hemispheres with the continents of the world, ships, sea monsters and a triton in the seas, architectural scrollwork surrounding the two maps, a ship in sail between them below, a portrait of Sir Francis Drake above, half -length, in an oval lettered with his name, slightly turned to the left, with a neat beard and moustache, in etched armour with a sash and wearing a lace collar over his gorget, a large shield to the right, decorated with a naval engagement; portrait after De Passe; title-page to De Bry's "Collectiones peregrinatiorum in Indiam orientalem et Indiam occidentalem (Americae Pars VIII)" (1599) Engraving with etching

Date
1599
Mapmaker / publisher
Print made by: Theodoor de Bry: Published by: Theodoor de Bry: After: Crispijn de Passe the Elder
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,752 × 2,500 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.

Credit line

"print, book-illustration, map" (1599). Print made by: Theodoor de Bry: Published by: Theodoor de Bry: After: Crispijn de Passe the Elder, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print,_book-illustration,_map_(BM_1872,0511.1046).jpg

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