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Johann Baptist Homann
Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti, 1720 c.
19 x 21 ½ in
48 x 55 cm
48 x 55 cm
WLD3760
£ 4,250.00
Johann Baptist Homann, Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti, 1720 c.
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Johann Baptist Homann became the leading German map maker in Germany of the early 18th century. He was born in Bavaria and was initially considering the seminary but ultimately he...
Johann Baptist Homann became the leading German map maker in Germany of the early 18th century. He was born in Bavaria and was initially considering the seminary but ultimately he settled in Nuremburg and established a map publishing firm in 1702. The firm was highly successful, with Homann being appointed imperial geographer to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1715. It went from strength to strength until Homann passed away in 1724 when it was taken over by his son.
Homann's maps are characterised by often antiquated geography but beautiful panoramic cartouches engraved in the baroque style that was becoming prevalent in the early 18th century. They are now sought after for both their peculiar cartography and their artistry.
This double hemisphere map of the world was first issued in 1707. This first issue showed California as an island and an enormous island of Yesso north of Japan. Confusingly, Homann also adds a coastline called Yesso north of California, propagating the myth of the land bridge between Asia and America which had been resurrected on Dutch and French maps of the mid-seventeenth century. Australia bears a very antiquated shape and little resemblance even to the charts available from Tasman's voyages. The shape of Africa most resembles those produced by the Dutch in the later 17th century. South America is closer to the shape advocated by Guillaume de L'Isle in the early 18th century. Two celestial hemispheres are present on the upper and lower centre while the map.
Aesthetically, Homann reaches an interesting compromise. Aware that public interest and tastes were changing, he did not fill the borders of the map with Dutch style allegorical scenes of mythical gods and goddesses; nor did he leave the borders blank as was the wont of the French ultra-scientific school as personified by de L'Isle. Rather, he illustrated his borders but with artistic renderings of scientific phenomena. The upper borders are filled with scenes signifying night and day while the lower border illustrates natural phenomena, such as water spouts, various meteorological features, a rainbow, an erupting volcano and types of clouds. There are also various panels of text which explain and locate each diagram on the lower border.
After 1715, Homann decided to re-engrave this map both to add the fact that he was now the Imperial Geographer and to correct and update the geography. The two major changes are the attachment of California to the mainland following Eusebio Kino's revelations of its peninsular nature and the re-configuration of the east coast of Asia, erasing the huge landmass of Yesso and adding the newly discovered Kamchatka Peninsula, following reports of its existence by Russian expeditions sponsored by Peter the Great.
Homann's world map had a long publishing history and was included in his most successful work, "Die Grosser Atlas ueber die ganze Welt" (Grand Atlas of all the World) of 1716 ensuring it is one of the most recognizable of early 18th century world maps.
The example offered on this occasion is the version issued after 1715. [WLD3760]
Homann's maps are characterised by often antiquated geography but beautiful panoramic cartouches engraved in the baroque style that was becoming prevalent in the early 18th century. They are now sought after for both their peculiar cartography and their artistry.
This double hemisphere map of the world was first issued in 1707. This first issue showed California as an island and an enormous island of Yesso north of Japan. Confusingly, Homann also adds a coastline called Yesso north of California, propagating the myth of the land bridge between Asia and America which had been resurrected on Dutch and French maps of the mid-seventeenth century. Australia bears a very antiquated shape and little resemblance even to the charts available from Tasman's voyages. The shape of Africa most resembles those produced by the Dutch in the later 17th century. South America is closer to the shape advocated by Guillaume de L'Isle in the early 18th century. Two celestial hemispheres are present on the upper and lower centre while the map.
Aesthetically, Homann reaches an interesting compromise. Aware that public interest and tastes were changing, he did not fill the borders of the map with Dutch style allegorical scenes of mythical gods and goddesses; nor did he leave the borders blank as was the wont of the French ultra-scientific school as personified by de L'Isle. Rather, he illustrated his borders but with artistic renderings of scientific phenomena. The upper borders are filled with scenes signifying night and day while the lower border illustrates natural phenomena, such as water spouts, various meteorological features, a rainbow, an erupting volcano and types of clouds. There are also various panels of text which explain and locate each diagram on the lower border.
After 1715, Homann decided to re-engrave this map both to add the fact that he was now the Imperial Geographer and to correct and update the geography. The two major changes are the attachment of California to the mainland following Eusebio Kino's revelations of its peninsular nature and the re-configuration of the east coast of Asia, erasing the huge landmass of Yesso and adding the newly discovered Kamchatka Peninsula, following reports of its existence by Russian expeditions sponsored by Peter the Great.
Homann's world map had a long publishing history and was included in his most successful work, "Die Grosser Atlas ueber die ganze Welt" (Grand Atlas of all the World) of 1716 ensuring it is one of the most recognizable of early 18th century world maps.
The example offered on this occasion is the version issued after 1715. [WLD3760]
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