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![[Portrait of Ortelius.]](jpegs/61517.jpg)
[Portrait of Ortelius.]
[Drawn & engraved by Philips Galle.]
[Antwerp, n.d., c.1590.]
Engraving with hand colour. 320 x 215mm. (12½ x 8½"), with large margins. Shallow tears in top left hand corner and some creasing confined to margins.
Portrait of the famous Dutch cartographer, an oval within a fine strapwork cartouche, published in posthumous editions of his atlas, the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. The motto reads: 'By looking, Ortelius gave mortal beings the world; by looking at his face, Galleus gave them Ortelius'. Galle engraved many of the maps in the Theatrum.
[Ref: 61517] £380.00
[Drawn & engraved by Philips Galle.]
[Antwerp, n.d., c.1590.]
Engraving with hand colour. 320 x 215mm. (12½ x 8½"), with large margins. Shallow tears in top left hand corner and some creasing confined to margins.
Portrait of the famous Dutch cartographer, an oval within a fine strapwork cartouche, published in posthumous editions of his atlas, the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. The motto reads: 'By looking, Ortelius gave mortal beings the world; by looking at his face, Galleus gave them Ortelius'. Galle engraved many of the maps in the Theatrum.
[Ref: 61517] £380.00