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Description: | Atlas sheet from an edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with Latin text, published in 1573. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. Scale approximately 1:400,000. Bar scale in small, medium and large Zeeland miles. Sandbanks are indicated by stippling and channels between the islands are named. The title is within a strapwork cartouche. The land area is decorated with cattle and the sea area by a fighting ship and two smaller vessels and a merman riding a sea creature.
caption: Zeland | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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