ARTIST: Andreas Cellarius
PUBLISHER: Published by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk.
MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,
DATE: 1661-1708
EDITION SIZE: Image size 17 1/4 x 20 3/8" (439 x 517 mm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: This chart presents the ancient constellations of the Southern sky set against a globe showing southern South America and southern Africa. Richly engraved in the baroque style and surrounded with an elaborate cloud background with putti in the sky and astronomers surrounded by instruments below. This chart appeared in "Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica," one of the finest 17th-century Dutch celestial atlases produced.
ADDITIONAL INFO: This impression is from the 1708 Valk & Schenk edition.
CONDITION: Good condition. Soft original hand coloring.
REFERENCE: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Cel. 3
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