COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-7103
File Name:
C-7103
Call number:
Cabinet Gl73 SeG
Map title:
Recens elaborata Mappa Geographica Regni Brasiliae in America Meridionali
Place of Publication:
Augustae Vind. [Augsburg]
Publication date:
[ca. 1730]
Map size height:
49.2 cm.
Map size width:
55.5 cm.
Item description:
engraving, hand coloring
Geographical description:
Map of Brazil including Amazon River south to Paraguay. Cartographic elements include topographical details, compass rose, scales, degrees of latitude and longitude. Decorative cartouche includes enslaved Black people preparing sugar cane, sugar cones, rolls of tobacco, and men smoking pipes.
Cartobibliographic notes:
A re-drawing of Joan Blaeu's Nova et accurata totius Brasiliae tabula, ca. 1650.
References:
Sandler, C. Matthäus Seutter, p. 10; Phillips, P.L. Atlases, 5977, no. [142]; British Museum Printed Maps 3/263; William L. Clements Library 2/368
Geographic Area:
South America
Normalized date:
1730
Creator:
Matthäus Seutter
Recens elaborata Mappa Geographica Regni Brasiliae in America Meridionali
