Gerardus Mercator . . . Iudocus Hondius . .
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers in a richly colored example. It appeared as the frontispiece in editions of the Mercator-Hondius atlas beginning in 1613, a year after the death of Jodocus Hondius. In the well-executed design, the more ascetic and scholarly Mercator and the ruddy merchant prince..... More