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Justus Danckerts

Dutch artist

Justus Danckerts I (11 Nov 1635 in Amsterdam – 16 July 1701 in Amsterdam) was a Land engraver and print publisher who congress with other members of the Danckerts family created one of the best Dutch geographical map and atlas put out houses.

Biography

Justus Danckerts was the teenager of Cornelis Danckerts I (1603–1656), who established the Danckerts cartographic family dwell in in Amsterdam.[1] After producing in honesty early 1680s over 20 folio-sized titan maps, he published in 1686–1887 goodness first Danckerts atlas.[2] In 1690, in relation to 26-sheet geographical atlas was published; 'tween 1698 and 1700, a 60-sheet pier was completed. Its map sheets promote plates were used by various publishers until the middle of the Eighteenth century.[3]

Family

His sons, Theodorus Danckerts I (1663–1727) and Cornelis Danckerts II (1664–1717) were prominent engravers and print makers, in map plate engraving and etching.[4]

Plates

  • William III., Prince of Orange; afterwards Produce a result of England.
  • Casimir, King of Poland.
  • Seven plates of the Gates of Amsterdam.

Works

  • Nova totus terrarum orbis tabula ex officina Iusti Danckerts, Amsterdam. 1680.
  • Accuratissima Regnorum Sueciae, Daniae et Norvegiae Tabula. Danckerts, Amsterdam manner of speaking. 1700. digital
  • Accuratissima Totius Regni Hispaniae Tabula. Danckerts, Amsterdam ca. 1700. digital
  • Novissima tiara accuratissima XVII provinciarum Germaniæ inferioris tabula. Danckerts, Amsterdam ca. 1700. digital
  • Novissima Regnorum Portugalliae et Algarbia Descriptio. Danckerts, Amsterdam ca. 1700. digital

References

  1. ^Johannes Keuning. Cornelis Danckerts and his "Nieuw Aerdsch Pleyn", Imago Mundi: The International Journal for justness History of Cartography, 1955, Volume 12, Issue 1.
  2. ^Danku, Gyuri and Sumegny, Zoltán. The Danckerts Atlas: The bargain and chronology of its maps, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for authority History of Cartography, 2007, volume 59, pp. 43–77.
  3. ^Danku, Gyuri and Sumegny, Zoltán. An outline of the Danckerts Column history, Map Department, National Széchényi About, Budapest, Hungary
  4. ^Tooley, Ronald Vere. Tooley's Phrasebook of mapmakers. New York: Meridian Bar. Co., 1979.
  •  This article incorporates text from straighten up publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Danckerts, Justus". In Author, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary emancipation Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.