![]() ![]() Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. He travelled extensively in Europe and is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576) France (1559–1560) England and Ireland (1576) and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 15). Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren, who would later move to London. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy. ![]() Following the death of Ortelius's father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. In 1535, the family had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism. The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Ortelius was born on 14 April 1527 in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). ![]() As well a beautiful renaissance text cartouche and a mileage scale with an navigation circle at the bottom. The early map here in a strong impression, ornated with a ship and a sea monster. A highly decorative map of Wales by the famous cartographer and mapmaker Abraham Ortelius based on the manuscript map by Lhuyds of 1568. Article description Original antique copper engraving, hand colored, published 1579 in a Latin text edition of the Atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" at Christopher Platin in Antwerp. ![]()
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