Mediterranean; Daniel Stoopendaal, Pieter Keur / Pieter Rotterdam - De Beschryvi
Map of the travels of the Apostle Paul, Copper engraving.
Condition: overall good condition - waterstains (mostly margins), browning - full, wide margins, nice, strong print
"De Beschryvingh van de REYSEN PAULI en Van DE ANDERE APOSTELEN..."
map of the Eastern Mediterranean, showing the travels of the Apostels from the Dutch bible (Pieter Keur, Pieter Rotterdam, 1714)
size 350 x 460 mm
About the carthographer:
Daniƫl Stopendaal (Amsterdam, 1672-idem, buried September 19, 1726) was a Dutch engraver. 1
Stopendaal was probably trained as a cartoonist and draughtsman by his father, Bastiaan Stopendael, who practised the same profession. Between 1685 and 1713 he worked in Amsterdam. [2] He made various engravings and etchings of maps and world maps. A number of maps were recorded in an edition of the Bible in 1714: Biblia, which is the Gantsche H. Schrifture, all the Canonijcke of the ancients and of the New Testaments, published by Jacob and Pieter Keur, Dordrecht and Pieter Rotterdam, Amsterdam. [3] He also commissioned and etched many well-known town houses and outside places of among other rich Amsterdammers.
A book work in which dozens of copper engravings are made of his hand, is the Zegepraalende fight from 1719.