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Americae tam septeontrionalis quam meridionalis (Both North and South America on a Geographic Map)
Americae tam septeontrionalis quam meridionalis (Both North and South America on a Geographic Map)
Americae tam septeontrionalis quam meridionalis (Both North and South America on a Geographic Map)

Americae tam septeontrionalis quam meridionalis (Both North and South America on a Geographic Map)

Manufacturer / Maker (1679 Marieney, Vogtland, Holy Roman Empire - 1742 Dresden, Holy Roman Empire)
Manufacturer / Maker (1660 Elberfeld, Germany - 1711 Leipzig, Germany)
Date1720
Mediumink on paper
Dimensionsframed: 26 1/4 x 29 x 1/2 in.
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation from the Lucia v. B. Batten Estate
Object numberPC2015.26.68
DescriptionReprinted in the years after his death, this is a map of the western hemisphere as it was known in the eighteenth century. North and South America are depicted with California acting as a mythical island off the coast of North America. Art in the margins hides sways of unknown land. In the top left corner two individuals hold the cartouche, an ornamental framing device often used to title a map, over the area where the Americas reaches Asia. Indigenous communities were intentionally portrayed mysteriously as is the case here where, compared to the colorful design of the explorers, faceless darker individuals worship at a temple in the lower left and hunt jaguars in the upper left of the map.
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