Nicolaes Visscher I (25 January 1618,

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– buried 11 September 1679, Amsterdam) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher. He was the son of

Claes Janszoon Visscher Claes Janszoon Visscher (1587 – 19 June 1652) was a Dutch Golden Age draughtsman, engraver, mapmaker, and publisher. He was the founder of the successful Visscher family mapmaking business. The firm that he established in Amsterdam would be p ...

. His son,

Nicolaes Visscher II Nicolaes Visscher II (1649, Amsterdam – 1702, Amsterdam) was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher. He was the son of Nicolaes Visscher I and the grandson of Claes Janszoon Visscher Claes Janszoon Visscher (1587 – 19 June 1652) was a ...

(1649–1702), also worked with him and continued the family tradition of mapmaking after his death. Visscher died in Amsterdam in 1679 and was buried in the

Nieuwezijds Kapel Nieuwezijds Kapel (Dutch - New Side's Chapel), or Heilige Stede (Dutch - holy site) or Chapel of the Heilige Stede refers to a site in Amsterdam that includes shops and a Dutch Reformed church built in 1908 on the site of a church once called the ...

on 11 September of that year, though a death year of 1709 is maintained by some sources.

Works

His engraved double hemisphere map, ''Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula'', was created in 1658 in

. It also contains smaller northern and southern polar projections. The border is decorated with mythological scenes, one in each corner, drawn by the painter

Nicolaes Berchem Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre ...

, showing

Zeus Zeus or , , ; grc, Δῐός, ''Diós'', label= genitive Boeotian Aeolic and Laconian grc-dor, Δεύς, Deús ; grc, Δέος, ''Déos'', label= genitive el, Δίας, ''Días'' () is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek relig ...

Neptune Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the farthest known planet in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 time ...

Persephone In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone ( ; gr, Περσεφόνη, Persephónē), also called Kore or Cora ( ; gr, Κόρη, Kórē, the maiden), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld aft ...

and

Demeter In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Demeter (; Attic Greek, Attic: ''Dēmḗtēr'' ; Doric Greek, Doric: ''Dāmā́tēr'') is the Twelve Olympians, Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, ...

. It is an early example of highly decorated Dutch world maps.

Gallery

File:Map-Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ (Amsterdam, 1685).jpg, ''Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ nec non partis Virginiæ tabula'' (1656) File:Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula by Nicolaes Visscher, 1658.jpg, ''Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula'' (1658) File:1658 Visscher Map of North America and South America - Geographicus - America-visscher-1658.jpg, ''Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio'' (1658) File:Visscher Die Gelegenheit Des Paradeis 1665 Cornell CUL PJM 2004 01.jpg, ''Die Gelegenheit Des Paradeis Und Des Lands Canaan Mit Sampt Den Erst Bewohnten Landeren Der Partriarchen Auss Der H. Schrifft Und Anderen Auctoren Zusamen Getragen'' (1665)

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* 1618 births 1679 deaths Engravers from Amsterdam Dutch Golden Age printmakers 17th-century Dutch cartographers {{Netherlands-bio-stub