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The Holy Land or Promised Land (Formerly Palestine), Recently Depicted and Published
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The Holy Land or Promised Land (Formerly Palestine), Recently Depicted and Published

Nicolaus (also spelled Nicolas, Nicolaes) Visscher was the son of a Dutch master painter and mapmaker, Claes Janszoon Visscher, and was known for the exquisite artistry of the maps he produced. In the 16th and 17th centuries the Dutch were involved in a race against Portugal for control of the spice trade. The antipathy between the two states ran especially deep because of the alliance of Portugal with the Kingdom of Spain, with whom the Dutch had been embroiled in the Eighty Years' War (1566-1648). Only one year before the creation of this map, the Dutch had ousted the Portuguese from Sri Lanka and were engaged in a flurry of cartographic endeavors related to their commercial and imperial expansion. Although the Holy Land belonged to the Ottoman Empire at this time, the Dutch had a foothold in Persia and designs for further expansion in the Near East. Palestine

Date
1659
Mapmaker / publisher
Visscher, Nicolaes (1618-1679)
Place
Palestine
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,251 × 1,024 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

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"The Holy Land or Promised Land (Formerly Palestine), Recently Depicted and Published" (1659). Visscher, Nicolaes (1618-1679), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Holy_Land_or_Promised_Land_(Formerly_Palestine),_Recently_Depicted_and_Published_WDL210.png

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