Lotter’s World Map Jacques Nicolas Bellin Latin text on verso

Latin text on verso

Conditions & Materials

Oppianus of Corycus & Oppianus of Apamea

The imaginary ‘mad-head’ island depicted by the engraver in a sea of shares and inhabited by shareholders (discovered by Mr Law-rens) has an ass’s ears and wears a fool’s cap

the artist may have been on the staff

Lotter’s World Map Jacques Nicolas Bellin Latin text on versoMappa Totius Mundi adornata juxta Observationes dnn. Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum secundum annotationes recentissimas edita per Guillelmum de lIsle Lotters world map, after Guillaume de lIsle, reflects the typical extent of mid eighteenth century European knowledge, with various incomplete and conjectural coastlines, notably the west coast of north America and the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, the latter linked