Fool's Cap Map of the World

Title

Fool's Cap Map of the World
Artist/maker

after Abraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598) (printmaker)

Flemish ("Anonymous Flemish") (printmaker)
Associated place

Antwerp (probable) (probable place of creation)
Date

c. 1590
Material and technique

hand-coloured engraving on off-white paper, with inscriptions in iron-gall brown ink
Object type

map;

print
Dimensions

49.7 x 38.8 cm (height x width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Western Art
Accession no.

WA2003.Douce.738

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