A Sanson‐Jaillot copperplate of 1674 of the eastern half of south America for the Atlas Nouveau: What might have been

Cartographic analysis of two centuries of map printing using copperplates – examples from the Czech Republic and Malta collections

“…Oil paintings are also documented on copperplates with an engraving of portrait graphics(Schirò 2014). 2 Two of them are owned by the Museum of London (Moorfields, Eastern City) and one by the Anhalt Art Gallery in the German town of Dessau (Western City).3 The right bottom sheet of the eight-leaf map(Heinz & Reiter 1998).4 This printing plate, which has been owned by the University of Texas at Arlington since 1986, was probably never used for printing and has therefore been preserved in very good condition(Davis-Allen & Reinhartz 1990). 5 Probably one of the two plates of the map of America made by A. Ortelius, which was never used for printing (Broecke 2005).6 This plate is stored in the Westfries Museum, Hoorn (inv.…”