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Terrestrial globe
Also titled Aardeglobe
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Alkmaar, 1571–1638)
1645 - 1648
- Medium
- copper (metal), paper, wood (plant material), gypsum
- Classification
- globe
- Dimensions
- diameter 68 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from private collectors
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Both Blaeus, father and son, were world famous cartographers. The globes that they made were real showpieces. Naturally, they included the latest discoveries of distant lands, and colonies such as ‘Nieu Nederland’ (New York). Yet there were still unexplored territories in the world. Only a small section of the Australian coast had been charted – by Dutchmen, as the name ‘Hollandia Nova’ indicates.
