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Americas--Valk, Leonard
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description
- Totius Americae novior accura[ta] tabula. Amsterdam, [c.1690]
- paper
Large engraved wall-map of the Americas (1100 x 1475mm.), in 2 sheets with elaborate top banner in 3 sections and side and lower borders of 14 separately engraved vignettes of the countries, ports and towns of the continent including Arx Nassovi, Porto Rico, Canada, Caput. S. Augustin, Stret Davis en Hudson and New Amsterdam, each with view and figures in the foreground, contemporary hand colour, backed on linen, original rollers, some browning, oxidisation of the green colouring, stain at upper left hand side, loss of engraved surface
Literature
cf. Burden, II, 625
Condition
Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
A rare and extremely decorative wall-map.
Valk’s fine map of the Americas, on two sheets joined, with the elaborate borders from additional plates, presents something of a conundrum. It is unarguable that this example bears Valk’s privilege awarded in 1686 (thus Burden), but the geography (notably for the Great Lakes region and the flat northern coast of the insular California) is not of that date but of fifteen years earlier, very reminiscent of Frederick de Wit’s wall-map of 1672 (Burden 428) in the geographical and decorative composition. Moreover Koeman dates Valk’s address ‘op den Dam inde Wackeren hont’ (previously that of Jodocus Hondius) to “some years” after 1687.
In the intervening fifteen or so years between de Wit’s map, and the attributed date of Valk’s wall-map, cartography had moved on, and these depictions would have looked very out of date on a new map. It may be, therefore, that surviving examples represent a reprinting of older plates, from the 1670s, as yet undiscovered.
Burden records only one example of the map complete with the additional borders, in a Czech castle; this example also has the borders, and matches his description. See lot 205 for Valk's companion wall map of Asia.
Valk’s fine map of the Americas, on two sheets joined, with the elaborate borders from additional plates, presents something of a conundrum. It is unarguable that this example bears Valk’s privilege awarded in 1686 (thus Burden), but the geography (notably for the Great Lakes region and the flat northern coast of the insular California) is not of that date but of fifteen years earlier, very reminiscent of Frederick de Wit’s wall-map of 1672 (Burden 428) in the geographical and decorative composition. Moreover Koeman dates Valk’s address ‘op den Dam inde Wackeren hont’ (previously that of Jodocus Hondius) to “some years” after 1687.
In the intervening fifteen or so years between de Wit’s map, and the attributed date of Valk’s wall-map, cartography had moved on, and these depictions would have looked very out of date on a new map. It may be, therefore, that surviving examples represent a reprinting of older plates, from the 1670s, as yet undiscovered.
Burden records only one example of the map complete with the additional borders, in a Czech castle; this example also has the borders, and matches his description. See lot 205 for Valk's companion wall map of Asia.