Magini Mogolis Imerpium

Circa 1640s

Original hand-coloured copper engraving on paper

Print size: 16.5 x 20.5 in (41.7 x 52 cm)
Sheet size: 18.25 x 22.25 in (46.3 x 56.7 cm)

A beautiful example of one of the earliest Dutch map of India published in Amsterdam by Blaeu, it shows the extent of the Mughal empire in North India. The map extends from Indus river to Irrawaddy River and from Tibet to Bombay and shows various Caravan routes. Sailing ships and animals adorn the seas while the lands are decorated by camels and elephants.

"Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571 - 21 October 1638), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz. Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu, Willem is considered one of the notable figures of the Netherlandish/Dutch school of cartography in its golden age (the 16th and 17th centuries).

As the son of a well-to-do herring salesman, he was destined to succeed his father in the trade, but his interests lay more in mathematics and astronomy. Between 1594 and 1596, as a student of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, he qualified as an instrument and globe maker. In 1600 he discovered the second ever variable star, now known as P Cygni.

Once he returned to Holland, he made country maps and world globes, and as he possessed his own printing works, he was able to regularly produce country maps in an atlas format, some of which appeared in the Atlas Novus published in 1635. In 1633 he was appointed map-maker of the Dutch East India Company". (Source: Wikipedia)

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