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Text-border with Tritons flanking a vase; at top, and a socle with a bust of a male figure in profile to left in a medallion at centre; the vertical borders with two children playing with large balls on top of columns; printed from four blocks; on verso a map of Europe(by Holbein?); illustrations to Ptolemy, 'Geographia universalis', Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1545. Metalcut and letterpress

Date
1522–1540
Mapmaker / publisher
Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger: Block cut by: Jacob Faber: Printed by: Heinrich Petri
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,500 × 1,968 pixels

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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, title-page, map" (1522–1540). Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger: Block cut by: Jacob Faber: Printed by: Heinrich Petri, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print,_title-page,_map_(BM_1865,0114.1025_1).jpg

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