The Beudeker Collection is a collection of maps and views of the
Netherlands
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, subdivision_type = Sovereign state
, subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands
, established_title = Before independence
, established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
and
Belgium
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in the
British Library
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, created by the Dutch merchant
Christoffel Beudeker
Christoffel Beudeker (1675 or 1685 – 1756) British Library, 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011. ...
British Museum
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in 1861, before the British Library was created. The collection is based on Joan Blaeu's maps of towns of the Netherlands, ''Tooneel der Steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden'', and the part of Blaeu's ''Atlas Major'' covering the Netherlands. Beudeker also collected many maps, portraits, drawings, views, and satirical prints dated between 1600 and 1756. Additional material added after Beudeker's death extended the collection up to 1815. The collection is in 24 volumes and includes work from important Dutch mapmakers, such as Blaeu, Abraham Ortelius,
Visscher Visscher is a Dutch occupational surname. ''Visscher'' is an archaic spelling of Dutch ''visser'' meaning "fisherman". Varianta are ''Visschers'' and '' De Visscher''. The latter form is now most common in East Flanders.Frederik de Wit and
Hondius Hondius can refer to two possibly unrelated families of engravers and cartographers, who both moved from Flanders to the Dutch Republic in the 1590s:
* Amsterdam family originating from Ghent:
** Jodocus Hondius (1563–1612)
*** Jodocus Ho ...
.
Digitisation
Parts of the collection have been digitised. The volume, ''Country houses and gardens of the Netherlands – part one'' (
shelfmark
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Christoffel Beudeker
Christoffel Beudeker (1675 or 1685 – 1756) British Library, 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011. ...
References
Further reading
* Simoni, Anna E.C. "Terra Incognita: the Beudeker Collection in the Map Library of the British Library" in ''British Library Journal'', Vol. 11, 1985, pp. 143-75.