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Waldseemuller map 2
1507
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct000725
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.
